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ANCESTRAL CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 

of the 

HILLMAN FAMILY 



By 

H. VV. HILLMAN 



1550-1905 




rm 



SCHENECTADY, N. Y., AUGUST 19 5 



THE WAL5^ 



PRESS, SCOTIA. N 



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I dedicate this I W to mj father, James W. Hillman, whose con- 

nued Interest in thi Annual Hillman Gatherings for thirty years, led 

• • . 1 1 1 1 1 . i l . ■ 1 1 1 1 work. 

H. W. HILLMAN. 




JUSTIN AND ABIGAIL HILLMAN 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter I. Earliest Dates — Various Branches — Hillman Reunions, 

and Finding' of Lot Hillman's Ancestry. 

II. Posterity of John Hillman (1) and Hanna Cottle; Lot 
Hillman (4>. and Lovey Luce. 

111. Posterity of Justin Hillman (5), Dr. Roswell S. Hillman 
(6), James W. Hillman (7), and the Author, H. W. 
Hillman (8). 
IV. Posterity of Reuben (5) and Lysander Hillman (6). 
V. Posterity of Jerome Hillman (6), Fred O. Hillman (6), 
Elizabeth Hillman Field (6), Edwin Field (7), and 
Henry Field (7). 
VI. Posterity of John Hillman (5), Presbrey Hillman (5), 
Julia Hillman Presbrey (6), Eugene Presbrey (7), 
Ozro Hillman (6), Gusta Hillman Presbrey (6), and 
Charles Taylor Hillman (6). 

VII. Posterity of John Hillman, including Jonathan (2), 
Samuel (3). Moses (4), Moses (5), Fanny Milner Hill- 
man Litch. Also William Hillman (5) to William 
Hillman, Jr. (8). 

•.ill. Posterity of Joseph Hillman (3), son of Richard (2). 
Also Jonathan (2), Samuel (3), Rev. Samuel Hillman 
(4), and James R. Day (5). Also Timothy Hillman 
(3) and Sons (4). 
IX. Posterity of Benjamin (3), Robert (4). Urial (5), Gilbert 
r. (6), Sophronia Hillman (7), and Edmond Russell 
Richards (8). 
X. Posterity of John (1), John <2>. Benjamin (3), Ben- 
jamin (4), owen (5), Owen (6), Beriah (7), Horace 
(S). and Mildred Hillman (0). 
XI Posterity of John (1), Benjamin (2), Cyrus (3), Samp 
son(4), Matthew (5), George W.(6), Rev. John H.< i I, 
Alice Cloe Hillman NToyes (8), and Harr 3 Greeley 
Noyes (9). 
XII The Haddonfield (N. J.) branch of the Hillman Family. 

Posterity of John (1), John (2), Daniel (3), Da I 

(4), Daniel (5), Samuel Stokes Hillman (6), Ben 
jamin R. (7). and limner C. Hillman (8). 

XIII. Miscellaneous References to Hillmans, 

XIV. Poetry. 



PREFACE. 

I hi family record in the following pages includes personal 
reminiscences, incidents and historical facts, as well as genea- 
l< tgical rec< >rds. 

It will be noted that the Hillmans are characterized for their 
earnestness and integrity. Tiny have exhibited a high degree 
• -i intelligence 1>\ the professional positions attained. In the 
religious work of this country they have been prominent, and 
in the medical profession, have furnished many graduates. 
Lawyers, bankers, and commercial men of recognized ability, 
are recorded among the Hillmans mentioned in these pages. 

Jerome Hillman's bravery at the time of the Mill River dis- 
aster will perpetuate the name of llillman for all time. It was 
loyalty to our country that caused James VV. llillman and 
Henrj Field to serve four years in our Civil War. and the 
Author is proud to record these events. 

It those who read this 1 k will select the most admirable 

qualities possessed by the Hillmans in general, and be gov- 
erned thereU in their daily conduct, then tlie work may be 
helpful, besides offering a reference for genealogical records. 

11. W. MILL. MAX. 

Schenectady, X. Y. 

March 18, 1905. 



AUTHOR'S NOTE.. 



The author is greatly indebted for data and information, to 
Mr. C. A. Clough, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Litch. Mrs. R. S. Evans, 
and Miss Sarah Crawford Hillman ; also to the great many 
Hillmans who may not have studied the subject as fully, but 
have furnished data and information cheerfully, although in 
some cases after considerable trouble and difficulty, 

Mr. C. A. Clough has resided at Vineyard Haven, on the Is- 
land of Martha's Vineyard for man}- years, and possessed a 

fund of information regarding the Hillmans, and other families 
related to them. In 1898, he furnished me with considerable 
information regarding the early settlers on the Island, taken 
from records then in his possession ; also with other interest- 
ing data regarding Hillmans which is always considered choice 
by those seeking that character of data. 

It would be ungenerous to omit reference to the enthusiasm 
with which Mr. E. H. Litch of Xew York has followed, and is 
at present following, the Genealogy of the Hillman Family. 
His wife's family inherited a manuscript giving valuable rec- 
ords of the Hillmans, and in addition, Mr. Litch has studied 
the subject from other sources for several years. 

The author takes this opportunity of thanking each one, 
and all of those who have contributed in any way toward the 
compilation of data in connection with which this bonk has 
been printed, as a lasting record. 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLIEST DATES — VARIOUS BRANCHES — HILLMAX RE- 
UNIONS AND FINDING OF LOT HILLMAN'S ANCESTRY. 



EARLIEST DATES. 

The earliest record in connection with which the name of 
HILMAN is mentioned, is 1601. In Burke's Commoners 
Vol. i, page 558. is the following: 

'"Richard Carew, Esq., the eelehrated author of the survey of 
Cornwall, a man whom Camden describes as "non-magis, 
generis, splendore, qnam, virtnte, et doctrina, nobilem." When 
only 14 being a gentleman commoner of Christ Church, Ox- 
ford, he was called out before the Earls of Leicester, and War- 
wick, and other noblemen, to dispute ex tempore, with the re- 
nowned Sir Phillip Sydney, and (adds Fuller), "Si quaeritis, 
linjus fortunan pugnae 11011 est snperatus abillo." 

.Mr. Carew was High Sheriff of Cornwall in the 24th Eliza- 
beth, and member of Parliament of Saltash in the 27th of the 
same reign. He married Julian, daughter of John Arundale, 
Esq., of Trerice, and had two sons, Richard and John. The lat- 
ter was a gallant soldier and served with distinction in the low 
countries, and other parts, having lost his right hand by a can- 
non ball, at the siege of Ostend in 1601. He was known 
amongst his friends by the name of "One-handed Carew". He 
married Alice, daughter of John Hilman, Esq.. Furlong, Eng. 
The oldest son of Alice Hilman Carew was Richard Carew, 
Esq., of East Anthony, who was created a Baronet in [641." 

From the foregoing it is fair to assume that Alice Hilman, 
being married about [601, was born about 1 575-80. and that 
her father, John Hilman. was born about the year 1550, only 
about sixty years after the discovery of America. 

The next earliest record is the year 1610. In the will of one 
Thomas Thatcher of Beckington, Somerset. England, refer- 
ence is made to William Hilman, to whorh the executrix of 
the estate was instructed to deliver twenty (20) shillings. 
Copy of the original will follows : 



THE III 1. 1. .MAN FAMILY. 

will <>■ THOMAS iii\Kllli: OF BECKINGTON, SOMERSET, 
l VGLAND, JAN. 10, Miiu. PROVEN JUNE 13, Mil 1. 

To certain i r persons In the parish of Beckington, whom I par- 
ticularly nam.-. i i,, my executrix, i'" shillings, to be divided to the said 
i i by the discretion of my overseers. 

For the better relieving of my Uncle .John Thatcher, my execu- 
trix shall deliver with the bands of my brother Clemenl Thatcher, a 
. which now is in the custody of my brother-in-law Roberl Keenell, 
thai by the discretion of my brother Clemenl shall in- employed to the 

of my said Uncle during his natural life, and after his decease, the 
• I cow i" remain to th< use of his children. 

My executrix shall in like manner, deliver into the hands of my 

brother Clement ■ other cow, color black, for the better relievini 

my Amu Elizabeth Thatcher, the use of-it to her for life, and then to 
remain to the use of my said Uncle John's children. 

To William llilinan. 20 shillings. 

To Thomas Griffin, 10 shillin 

To Thomas I lemburj , 10 s hillings. 

To my maid servant, Mary Wattes, 20 shillin--. 

To Hester Thatcher, my brother William's daughter, one bed and 
one bolster, and ■ shi i p. 

To Ezra Thatcher, my brother William's son, one sheep. 

A conditional bequest to John Gallington, son of brother-in-law 
John Gallington. 

Item: My will is that if my brother Anthony Thatcher who now 
Is in the "separation," do join In the profession of true religion with 
any true church, thai then my executrix within one whole year after 
he shall so have joined himself, either with a Reform- d ln.ii.di church, 
In which country he now liveth, or shall return into England and join 
with ns, shall pay unto my brother 5 pounds, which is in token of 
bi otherly affect Ion I give unto him. 

The rest of my g Is l give to Anne, my wife, whom r make execu- 

trix, and make my friend Toby Walkw 1 and brother Clemenl 

Thatcher, overseers. 

The above was copied from the New England Historical and 
deal Register, year lX< ■}. 

Mr. \\ . S. Andrews, of Schenectady, X. Y.. recently received 
• June. 1905) a photograph of a street in Beckington, England, 
showing on .uic side, the "1,1 Hilman Homestead. lie writes 
me: "I know tin- place well and was often inside it in mv 

) 1 tilth fill d;i\ S." 

On March 7. 1905, rlenr} Hillman from Beckington, Somer- 
England, wrote m( : "The name of Hillman has been in 
this parish i'« »r centuries." 

Lucretia Hillman, daughter of Roger Hillman and Honor 

wife, born in Devonshire, Topham, England, August 6, 

[643, married Roger Derby, August 23, [668. He was born in 

Topham in [643. Arrived in Boston July [8, [671. She died 

in Salem, Mass., Ma\ 25, [689. 

In the lisl of emigrants to this country between 1(100-1700 in 
Hutton's History, reference is made to Ellner Hillman, aged 




THE OLD HILLMAN HOUSE, BECKINGTON, SOMERSET, ENGLAND 

(ON THE LEFT) 



EARLIEST DATES. '.I 

33 years, who came to this country from London in [illy, 1635, 
in the ship Abigail. This ship unloaded its emigrants some- 
where along the shores of Virginia. 

Hutton's History also gives name of Janus llillman from 
Milverton, England, who came to this country in [685 as an 
exile. He was a follower of Monmouth and fought in the 
Monmouth Rebellion. The hardships through which he 
passed on the voyage to this country arc mentioned on pages 
582 and 583, Volume 1, Macauley's History of England, as fol- 
lows : 

"The number of prisoners whom Jeffreys transported was eight 
hundred and forty-one. These men, more wretched than their asso- 
ciates who suffered death, were distributed into gangs, and bestowed 
on persons who enjoyed favour at court. The conditions of the gifl 
were that the convicts should be carried beyond sea as slaves, that 
they should not be emancipated for ten years, and that the place of 
their banishment should be some West Indian island. This last article 
was studiously framed for the purpose of aggravating the misery of the 
exiles. In New England or New Jersey they would have found a popu- 
lation kindly disposed to them and a climate not unfavorable to their 
health and vigor. It was therefore determined that they should be 
sent to colonies where a Puritan could hope to inspire little sympathy, 
and where a labourer born in the temperate zone could hope to enjoy 
little health. Such was the state of the slave market that these bond- 
men, long as was the passage, and sickly as they were likely to prove, 
were still very valuable. It was estimated by Jeffreys that on an aver- 
age, each of them after all" charges were paid, would be worth from 
ten to fifteen pounds. There were therefore much angry competition 
for grants. Some Tories in the West conceived that they had, by their 
exertions and sufferings during the insurrection, earned a right to 
share in the profits which had been eagerly snatched up by the syco- 
phants of Whitehall. The courtiers, however, were victorious. 

The misery of the exiles fully equalled that of the negroes who are 
now carried from Congo to Brazil. It appears from the best informa- 
tion which is at present accessible that more than one fifth of th< 
who were shipped were flung to the sharks before the end of the 
voyage. The human cargoes were stowed close in the holds of small 
vessels. So little space was allowed that the wretches, many of whom 
were still tormented by unhealed wounds, could not all lie down at 
once without lying on one another. They were never suffered to go on 
deck. The hatchway was constantly watched by sentinels armed with 
hangers and blunderbusses. In the dungeon below all was darkness. 
stench, lamentation, disease and death. Of ninety-nine convicts who 
were carried out in one vessel, twenty-two died before they reached 
Jamaica, although the voyage was performed with unusual speed. The 
survivors when they arrived at their house of bondage were mere 
skeletons. During some weeks coarse biscuit and fetid water had been 
doled out to them in such scanty measure that any one of them could 
easily have consumed the ration which was assigned to Ave. They 
were, therefore, in such a state that the merchant to whom they had 
been consigned found it expedient to fatten them before selling them." 

Another early record is mentioned in the New England 
Genealogical Register, Vol. 16, Page 329. It states thai Josh 
Hilman was a witness to will of Stephen Spicer, died in Bos 
ton, June 10, 1665, late of Barbadoes Island. 



Ill THE II I I.I.MAX FAMILY. 

Josias Hillman was a soldier in King Phillip's War, Sept. 14, 
[675. (See Page 175 New England Historical and Genealogi- 
cal Register of [883. 1 

In the lli-t<>r\ of Hingham, Mass., there is a record of 
Charles, son of Joseph Hillman, born June u. [679 by wife 
I lannali. 

VARIOUS BRANCHES. 
From later records, we learn that there arc at least four dis- 
tinct branches of the family, bearing the name of Hillman. 
In the latter part of the 17th century, (about 1670) John Hill- 
man came from England to the fsland of Martha's Vineyard, 
and settled at Chilmark. Prom this ancestry are sprung a 
large portion of the families bearing the name here in this 
country. 

About the same time, another John Hillman also came from 
England, and settled at Haddonficld, X. J. This is an entirely 
different branch from the firsl mentioned, and many families 
in all parts of this countr) are <\ ■ tided from the second 
John. Both came from England, and without doubt, further 
investigation will d m thai they were closely related. 

The third branch refers to those families which are de- 
rided fn>m German Jews, while the fourth branch is of 
I Mitch < irigin. 

REUNIONS OF THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

In the war [876 a number of descendants of the Hillman 
family nut al Charkmont, Mass., to In. Id a Hillman re- 
union. .\ President, Sccr tary and Treasurer were elected, 
and resolutions wen- adopted to tin- effect that a meeting 
should hi' held annually. It was the purpose of the organiza- 
tion ii"t i'ii!_\- to mor cl unite the ties of relationship 
between all members of the Hillman family then living, 
hui in learn as much as possible about the Hillmans of the 
pasl generations, and to secure, and preserve information co 1 
(( rning in w general i< ins. 

The firsl presidenl of the Hillman Association was Lysander 
Hillman. At the time of his election, the earliest ancestry re- 

rding whom the Association possessed records, was Lot 
Hillman. Me spent the middle and latter part of his life in 
Conway, Mass., and raised his family there. I [e married L,ovey 
I. uce. Information was available regarding his family, and 
his descendants, and it was common knowledge among the 




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LOT HILLMAX'S ANCESTRY. 11 

members of the Hillman Association, that in his earlier years, 
he came from Martha's Vineyard, Mass. 

Information was not available, however, in regard to Lot 
Hillman's ancestors. Nothing was known about his father's 
family, nor was there any data possessed by the Hillman Asso- 
ciation which enabled the organization to trace its ancestry 
back to an earlier date than 1758. 

The author attended the first Hillman gathering at Mr. Ed- 
win Field's residence. North Hatfield, Mass., in 18X0, and for 
many successive years, attended the annual meetings of the 
Association. About 1898 I commenced to take a keen interest 
in the genealogical records of the family. My interest was 
stimulated by reason of finding so many Hillmans in various 
parts of the country. In January, 1898, I therefore had some 
blank forms printed, of which several hundred were sent out, 
and much information was gathered through this method. I 
personally visited a great many libraries in New York, Boston, 
Philadelphia, Albany, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Atlanta, 
Birmingham, Louisville, Youngstown, Detroit, Columbus, 
Buffalo, Washington, etc., etc., collecting data, and investi- 
gating genealogies of other families with the hope of adding 
to our data regarding the Hillman family. Notwithstand- 
ing these three years of careful, exhaustive work, it fell to the 
honor of Mr. Edwin Field, of North Hatfield, Mass., to furnish 
a link in the chain of facts regarding Lot Hillman's ancestry, 
to which the Hillman Association may well attach importance. 
I was able to assist him by following up a letter which led to 
furnishing the missing link; but had it not been for bis active 
interest in the Hillman Association, regarding which many 
other evidences have been shown, since its organization, we 
might have been years later, in securing data. 

FINDING OF LOT HILLMAN'S ANCESTRY. 

It happened as follows: In September, [901, Mr. Edwin 
Field received a letter from Mrs. E. H. Litch, dated Uxbridge, 
Mass., of which the following is a copy: 

HOTEL WINDSOR. 

Uxbridge, Mass., Sept. 4th, L901. 

Mr. Edwin W. Field, 
Dear Sir: — 

I have yours of Sept. 2nd. Many thanks tor Hi'' prompt re] 
Can you give me any information regarding your mother's family? I 
am trying to trace my pedigree. My father's name was Moses Hill 
man, born in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard in L810. My grandfath< > 



12 THE II 1 1. 1. MAN FAMILY. 

svas Mo ■ ii. married Lydia Chase. Greal grandfath 

ii. I Hlllman; married Phoebe Cathcart. Great, greal grandfather, 

Jonathan Hlllman; married Bertha Lovell, and great, great, greal 

ndfather John Hlllman, married Ruth I would like- to 

obtain all the dates l can; fa< etc. Tradition says one of the 

In this country, was John, a Welsh boy, wim came 

here and was Bold for his passage, bul we ca >1 find from whal pari 

he took -ii pping; the year, or whom he married, or when he landed. 
Can you give me any assistance whatever? Would like t<> know aboul 

your ther and her family; date of birth, etc., etc., etc., and I shall 

bi greatly your debtor. Hope you will be able to tell me who the 
above Ruth Is, or was; who married John Hlllman, and if 

this John Is the emigrani boy. 

Fours very cordially, 

(Signed i Mis. E. II. Litch. 

i Fa nnie M liner Hillman. i 

P, s. My home is in Brooklyn, X. Y.. but I shall In- in Uxbi 
through ili'' pn enl month. 

i In September 22, 1901, Ik- referred tin- original letter i" me, 
writing me at the same time as follows: 

North Hatfield, Sept. 22, 1901. 
1 >< a r l [arry: — 

Enclosed you will find a letter from a lady who was unci' a Hillman, 
an. 1 wants to in- sure of her pedigree. I have written her that l would 
send her letter to you asking you to answer her questions If it was in 
your power to do so. I have waited because your father said you was 
in Buffalo. 

Give love to wife and babies. 

Affed ionately yours, 
(Signed 1 E. W. FIELD. 

I wrote to Mis. L,itch at Uxbridge, ami very soon thereafter 
received a visit in Schenectady from her husband, Mr. E. H. 
Litch, who was spending Sunday in the city, and called on me 
for the purpose of talking over the matter of his relationship 
with the members of the Hillman family. His home was 
in Brooklyn, his business on Broadway, \V« York City. II- 
interested me much because of the amount of data he pos- 
sessed, regarding the Hillmans. Mis knowledge indicated a 
considerable degree. of study, and thought. We quickly estab- 
lished close relations, socially, and would have done so 

nealogically, could we have found facts, and dates at that 
time, to prove "clove relation-.." \\ e agreed to study together, 
ami help each other on the subject. I loaned him my large 

emorandum honk containing records. 1 advised him that 
regardless of my searches among the records at Martha's Vine- 
yard, and many visiis in libraries, in addition to other exhaus- 
tive work, we could not find any trace of the ancestr} of 1 ,ot 
I lillman. 




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LOT HILLMAN'S ANCESTRY. 13 

Six weeks later, on Nov. 4th. 1901. he wrote me enclosing 
information regarding the ancestr) of L,o1 Hillman, taken from 
an old family Bible of Moses Hillman, which belonged to 
Mrs. Litch. Therefore, the tracing of the (Jxbridge letter 
gave us data in three months, which the Hillman Association 
had been seeking for thirty years, and I take much pleasure in 
associating the names of Mr. and Mrs. Litch with this valu- 
able find. 



CHAPTER II. 



POSTERITY OF JOHN 1 1 1 1. 1. .\!.\.\ ill AND HANNAH COTTLE 
l.< i I II I LLMAN i 5 i ANI > l.i >vi;y I. ii •!•;. 



John Hillman in. In the history of Farmington, Me., by 

Butler, page \<>\. is the following : 

"A traditii the Hillmans suites thai from John Hillman. 

o was the emigranl ancestor of Hi'- Farmington families, are sprung 

by Miai name, who reside in this country. He came to tin' 

■in I of .Martha's Vineyard In the latter pari of the 17th century, hav- 

been stolen when a lad of 16, from a fishing boat on the River 

Thames, England. He followed the trade of a worsted comber, and 

after his marriage, settled In Chilmark. His wife was Hannah Cottle 

..i Tisbuiy. Their grandson, Benjamin, was the father of Etoberl 

Hillman, who settli il upon tin- homestead In chilmark." 

Cop) of written statement of Beriah T. Hillman of Edgar- 
town, Mass., Register of Probate, [nsolvency, and Attorney- 
at-Law. 

■John Hillman appears as grantor in a deed recorded in the Regis- 
tij Hi Deeds in Dukes County. Mass.. I-Snok 1. pup' lt.n in 1693. H< 
rried Hannah Cottle it is said. John Hillman had a son John, and 
ppears in a deed recorded in Boob l. page 322, dated 1 7 1* :: . In 
that ■*■ .I. John Hillman is spoken of as a son nt" John Hillman. The 
wife of the son John was named Ruth. Her name appears in a deed 
as the wife of John Hillman, which is recorded in Hook 9, page 684, 
ami also in the Probate Records, Hook 3, page L53." 

John Hillman (i) had the following sons: 

Richard Hillman (2). In the N.w England Genealogy Register 
Vol. 7. page 262, is given the date of birth of Richard Helman, ye son 
of John. b. Oct. 7th. 1682. d. Chilmark, March 26th, L743. 

Samuel Hillman (2), b. Chilmark; d. June Llth, 1727. Received 
into church March 23rd, 1718. Left no sons. 

Benjamin Hillman (2), b. 1676; m. Susanna Sampson. 

Beriah T. Hillman of Edgartown, Register of Probate, In 
vency, and Vttorney-at-Law, stales; 

"John Hillman had a son Benjamin Hillman. ami this appears in 
Book i 323 of the Registry of Deeds, dated L719. 

Benjamin's wife was named Susanna, and he had a son Ben- 
in. You will find in Probatt Records, r.ook ::. page 17s i think it 
is. a will dated 1 7 I 5." 

She is said to have been a lineal descendant of Henry Samp- 
si m a Ma) flower passenger. 

hi the Genealog) of the Sampson family. New York State 
Library, is the following : 



POSTERITY OF JOHN HILLMAN. L5 

"Henry Sampson was one of the company of Pilgrims who came 
in the world-renowned "Mayflower" to Plymouth in 1620. He was a 
number of the family of his Uncle Edward Tilley, and was too young 
to sign the Immortal Compact of Nov. 11th, in the cabin of that ves 
and while at anchor in the harbor of Pmvincetown. He was. h<>wc\<i 
enumerated in the assignment of land 1623, and in the division of cat- 
tle 1627, and was admitted a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1637." 

Jonathan Hillman (2), 1). Chilmark; 111. Bethia Lovell at 
Chilmark, Feb. 5th, \~22-3. 

They were taken into church, also baptized, with their 
children (no names of children). April 29th, 1744. Their first 
child (no name given), died suddenly August 21st, 1725. 

John Hillman (2), son of John Hillman (1) ; b. about 1695 . 
d Chilmark. Martha's Vineyard April 16th, 1728. He had the 
following sons: Thomas (3), John (3). Shubael (3). 

In the deed recorded in Book 4, page 322, dated 1723, Edgar- 
town, Mass., John Hillman is spoken of as a son of John. 

Beriah T. Hillman of Edgartown, Register of Probate and 

Insolvency, and Attorney-at-Law, states: 

"The wife of the second John was named Ruth. Her name ap- 
pears in a deed as the 'wife of John Hillman,' which is recorded in 
Eook 9, page 684, and also in the Probate Records, Book 3. page 153." 

John Hillman (3), second son of John Hillman (2). This 
is Lot Hillman's father about whom no records are given, and 
no other information except that he had for his eldest son. Lot 
Hillman. He was probably, b. about 1727; m. at the age of 
2J or 28, which would be 1754-1755. These dates must be 
approximately correct. He must have been born before 1728, 
hecause his father died 1728, according to the records. As 
Lot Hillman was the eldest son, his father quite likely was 
married about 1754 or 55. It might have been a few years 
earlier, as the records do not state that there were no daugh- 
ters; they simply state that Lot was the eldest son: but there 
may have been daughters born before his birth. 

John Hillman (3) had five children as follows: 

Lot Hillman (4), b. 1758 Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard; m. Lovey 

Luce. June 20th, 17S0, Chilmark. Martha's Vineyard. 

He was Private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. Served 
January 18th to February 21st, 1776, Martha's Vineyard, Sea 
Coast Defense. 

John Hillman (4). There was also a John Hillman. brother 
to Lot, Shubael and Eleazor. 

Mr. E. H. Litch advises that he might have been the John 
Hillman who was taken prisoner, on ship, Gen. Washingt 



16 THE llll, I, MAX FAMILY. 

Juntian nth, 1781, and taken from New \><vU to England, and 
1 ild Mill Prison in September, 1781 

Shubael Hillman 1 \ \. son of John. He married Lydia May- 
hew. Me lived in Charlemont. After his children were 

iwn, it is said that he went to Cleveland. ( Ihio, a partner in 

an ox team. A pari of the family afterwards returned to 

Massachusetts. Their children were: 

Peggie Hillman. b. April 21st, 1789, Williamsburg; m. (nun Hal- 
1. Intentions published July 7th, 1812 in Gill, Muss. He was b. 
5th, 1789, and was the sun nf Phillip mill Mary Mallard. 
Lueinda llillman. b. Dec. I lih. 1790, Williamsburg, Mass. 
Was- Hillman. b. Oct. 10th, 1792, Williamsburg, Mass.; m. Amanda 
Allen of Greenfield, Mass. Intentions published Aug. 29th, 1812. Gill, 
M.i 

Chester Hillman. b. Sept. 3rd, 1794, Williamsburg, Mass.; m. Laura 
Ballard. Intentions published Sept. 9th, 1815, Gill, Mass. 

\mancla llillman. b. Aug. 7th, 1798, Williamsburg, Mass. 

John Mayhew llillman. b. Nov. 7th, 1798, Gill, Mass.; m. first, 
Pol \ of Charlemont, April 25th, 1819; b. May 20th, 1800; d. 

Dec. 18th, 1836. M. secondly, Eleanor Canedy of Colrain, Mass.. 
March 22nd, 1838; l>. Dec. 6th, 1800; d. April, 1881, at Heath, Mass. 
He d. Aug. 2 1th, 18 12. 

Susannah llillman. b. Sept. 8th, 1800, Gill, Mass. 

Ruth llillman. b. March 26th, 1802. Gill, Mass.; in. 1822, to Daniel 
A. Bigelow; b. Any. 4th, 1797;. d. Aug. 25th, 1827. Son nf Timothy ami 
abeth Arnold Bigelow. They resided in Hartsgrove in 1890. 
William Edwards llillman. b. May 30th, 1804, Gill, Mass. 
Shubael Franklin llillman. b. Sept. 17th, 1806, Gill, Mass. 
Merele Hanks Hillman, h. May 22nd, 1809, dill. Mass. 

Levi Hillman (4) . 

Eleazor Hillman (41. b. [772, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard; 
(1. 1798, I.yden, X. Y., age 26 years. 

II. was a brother of Lot ami Shubael Hillman. He mar- 
ried Sarah Washburn of Williamsburg, Mass. After his death 
in I.yden. X. Y.. the widow returned to Williamsburg in 1 700. 
ami from their moved to Dana, Mass., where she married for 
her second husband, Seth Johnson. 

Children of Eleazor and Sarah Hillman were: 

We.iiiin llillman. b. 1795; m. Jonas Woodward of Dana, Mass.. 
and moved to Michigan. * 

Stephen llillman. l.. Oct. 3rd, 1 7 :» 7 at Lyden, X. v.; m. Chloe 
March rth, l^"; b. April 21st, IT:''.' Hardwick, Mass.; d. Jum 
i. hM Hardwick, Mass.. ,-il;. 82 years. She was the daughter of 

^•i .ill and Chloe Knlghl Barnes. They moved t" Hardwick, Mass.. 

in 1866. H, ■ .1. Nov. 22nd, 1886 at Hardwick, Mass. Age n7. 

Lot Hillman i 4). 'The records show that Lot Hillman was 
married in 1780, and at that time was living in Chilmark, 
Martha's Vineyard. < mly a few years later, he moved to Col- 




1111' OLD Nil. I. MAN HOUSE, CONWAY, MASS. 




JAMES W. HILI.M.W 




MRS. JAMES \V. HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF JAMBS W. HILLMAN. S] 

man, had reached a sufficiently high degree of proficiency in 
connection with organ music, that he played the church organ 
of the Methodist Church in Florence, Mass. The author well 
remembers the many occasions when friends, and relatives 
visited our house (a good many years later). There was a 
universal request something as follows: "Well Jim, can't you 
give us a song?" His voice was sweet, and clear, especially 
pleasing to those who enjoyed music: and he was a master of 
the organ, or the piano. He could read music readily, and was 
so familiar with the instrument, and had such an excellent 
memory, that he could always entertain his hearers with plenl \ 
of selections, (without having his notes with him). 

At the age of 21, he joined the Army. The Hillman charac- 
teristic asserted itself at this time, showing his spirit of loyalty 
and love for his country. Upon making application for ser- 
vice, and being rejected on account of height, he enlisted as a 
drummer boy, and served for nearly three years; August 30th, 
1862 until June 21st, 1865. An illustration on the opposite 
page gives a list of the battles in which he was engaged ; the 
date and place of organization of the Company ; the Regiment ; 
the Brigade : the Division ; and the Army Corps : together with 
the names of the Officers, and Commanders, and the forms and 
colors of the Corp badges. The 37th Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, took a most active part in the War. From the list of 
battles, it will be noted that James Hillman was at Fredericks- 
burg with Rurnside, in December, '62: at Gettysburg with 
Meade; in the Rattle of the Wilderness; at Winchester in the 
Shannendoah Valley with Sheridan; and at the Appomatox 
Court House with Grant, at the surrender of Lee's Army. He 
was honorably discharged in June, '65, and returned to Wil- 
liamsburg, Mass., to find his father's health broken down, and 
the next year they all moved to Manchester, N. J. About this 
time, he was married to Julia Sherman of Worthington, Mass. 
A few years later, he moved with his wife, and two children to 
Northampton, Mass., where he has followed the railroad busi- 
ness for the last thirty years. He has always taken a promin- 
ent part in the memorial exercises each year on May 30th : 
has been a member of the Grand Army Post at Northampton, 
since its organization, and at this writing (May. [905) is Vice 
Commander of the Organization. 

He is highly respected as a neighbor; has been a good citi- 
zen; a good husband: but above all, an especially good grand- 



32 THE HILiLMAN FAMILY. 

father. The visits of his grandchildren t<> Northampton, art' 
filled with solid pleasure, and good times. He has a way pecu- 
liar unto himself, for entering into the affections of the little 
ones, and the) will long remember, and cherish the happy 
spent at grandfather, and grandmother Hillman 's. 
James Hillman has attended all the meetings of the Hillman 
Association since its organization, and was its president for 
se\ eral ) ears. 

JIM'S BEAUTIFUL VOICE. 

i r.v ii. w. u.i 

in Mi.- lit r I • village of Searsville, Mass. 

A boy was bom of a musical class; 

Perchance 'twere the mother's choice 

Thai .liin was favored with a beautiful voice. 

Ii is saiil thai tin Whites on tin- mother's side; 
Possessed musical skill, known fat- ami wide; 
Thai tin- girls were musical as well as the boys, 
Ami this was the reason for Jim's beautiful voice. 

In his early years he sang in the choir. 
A n. I with wonderful skill endeavored to inspire 
Those whom the pastor gave up in despair, 
Jim's voice would attract both then and there. 

When Hi. war broke out in '61, 
His musical education had hardly begun. 
Y. t duty to his country was first before all; 
It was necessary to meet the President's call. 

So he leaves the old home of his childhood days. 
Tin home where his sister Louisa plays; 
The hills and the pasture where the cattle graze. 
Ami Hi.- church, and choir, with its songs of praise. 

To Pittsfleld lie rides with other soldier hoys. 
Th. departure is marked by their shouts and noise; 
With patriotic solids on the way they rejoice. 
Ami Jim is the favorite with Ids beautiful voice. 

There were Arthur Merritt and Henry Field. 
Among those to whom their souks appealed; 

And as thej sang they gave little concern 
To ih. fad that some would never return. 

Arthur Merritt look chances with the rest. 

His mother had said, 'twas all for the best; 

I'm ■ nlghl as he lay encamped by the tire. 

His Master's voice was calling him higher. 

While the battle was raging the following day, 
lie was mortally wounded in the affray; 

And as they carried him off the field, 
Jim's beautiful voi.e to him appealed. 

"Sing one more the old songs, Jim!" 
w ■ re his dying words as he looked up at him; 
And Jim's beautiful voice, with tender grace. 
Accompanied his spirit to its last resting place. 




I. IS I OF BATTLES IN WHICH JAMES \V. HILLMAN 
WAS ENGAGED DURING THE CIVIL WAR 







FAMILY OF WILLIAM IIILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON HIL.L.MAN. 63 

Rubber Company, New York City; b. New York City, Sept. 
2ist, 1802; 111. New York City, June 17th, [884, to Fanny 
Guthrie, New York City. She was. b. New York City. Sept. 
17th, 1863. They have five children. 

Guion Guthrie Ilillnian <x». b. New York City, July 2nd, Inn-'l 

Majorie Ilillnian (8), b. New York City. July 11th. 1NS8. 

Goo. Washington Ilillnian. Jr. <s». b. New York City, Sept. 8th, 
1890. 

Alan Crawford Ilillnian (N), b. Flushing, New York, March 20th, 
1893. 

Dorothy Hilhnan (N). b. Flushing, New York, Sept. 7th, 1896. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



POSTERITY, OP JOSEPH HILL. MAX (3), SON OF RICHARD (2). 
ALSO JONATHAN (2), SAMUEL (3), REV. SAMUEL 1 1 1 1.1. M AN 
(4), AND JAMES R. I 'A V (5). ALSO TIMOTHY Hll. L.MAX ( ?, ) 
AND S( >NS (4). 



Joseph Hillman (3), brother of Timothy (3), b. - — ; 

m. Kezia Norton of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 24th. 
[737; d. . Children were: 

Cornelius Hillman (4). He had tax abated, Charlestown, .Mass.. 
1 TTl. (See Wyman's Charlestown). He left no sons. 

Stephen Hillman < i). Tax abated Charlestown, Mass.. 1T6'.», 177a. 
1771. for poverty. (See Wyman's, Charlestown. Stephen Hillman (5), 
son of Stephen Hillman • 1 1. He was. m. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, 
April 24th, 1806, to Berseba Skiff. 

Matthew Hillman (4). - 

Daniel Hillman 1 1 >. private In Nathan Smith's Company, service 
from Jan. 18th, to Sept. 1st, 1776, at Martha's Vineyard. Sea Coast De- 
fense 

Aimer Hillman (4), private in Capt. Nathan's Company, serivce 
Jan. Mli. to Nov. 21st, 1776, Martha's Vineyard, Sea Coast Defense. 

Also in "'apt. Nathaniel Hamm I's Company, 4th Plymouth Cavalry 

Regiment, commanded by Lieut. -< 'el. White. Entered July 30th, 1780. 
Discharged Aug. 8th, 1780, Rhole island Alarm. 

Children of David Hillman (3), son of Richard Hillman (2): 

Richard Hillman (4), m. Jane — . Chilmark records 

mention children of Richard and Jane as follows: Beriab Hillman, b. 
March i.'.ih. 1776. Thankful, b. July 23rd, 1778. Anna] Hillman. b. 
Jan. 21st, 17M. Mary Hillman. b. July 9th, 1784. Elizabeth Hillman. 
b. Feb. 20th, L786. 

Thomas Hillman (4) private In Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, 
service June 1st to Nov. 21st, 1 7 7 f» . Martha's Vineyard, Sea Coasl !><■- 
fense. He had Ave children. Francis Hillman (5), Charles Hillman 
(5), Thomas Hillman (5), Jethro Hillman (5), Lavenia Hillman (5), 
b. Sept. 7th, 1789, Martha's Vineyard; in. Redfleld, Me.. March 29th < 
L810, Benjamin Foster. He was, b. Winthrop, Me., June 17th. 1784; 
<!. Boston, Mass.. April 20th, I860. He was sen of Lieut. Samuel 
Foster, she d. Maj 1867 or 1 875. 

David Hillman (4), never married. Private in Capt. Nathan 
Smith's Company, service Jan. 18th, to Nov. -1st, 1 7 7*;, Martha's Vine- 
yard, Sea « 'east I tenfense. 

Edward Hillman (4), married, hut children unknown. 
Children of Jonathan Hillman (2), and Bethia Lovell: 

David Hillman (3), had no sens live to maturity. 



POSTERITY OF LOT HILLMAN. 1 7 

rain. Mass.. where Justin llillman was born in i/<j_\ There 
does not seem to be a photograph of Lot llillman available, 
so that we may know of his appearance, lie died before 
reaching the age of 50, and his grandchildren did not have the 
opportunity of knowing as much about him as if he had lived 
to he 80 or 90 years old. lie was buried within a stone's 
throw of the old llillman house shown on the opposite page. 
A suitable headstone marks his grave, on which is the Follow- 
ing inscription: "Mr. Lot Hillman died 14th of Nov., [805, 
A. E. 47 — Blessed he they that die in the Lord." 

The writer visited this spot some years igo, and was im- 
pressed with its ideal location. Tt is so close to the old home- 
stead that one can imagine the spirit of Lot Hillman watching 
over, and protecting those who lived, and prospered in the old 
place. From season to season, and from year to year, his 
spirit witnessed the happy childhood days of his grand- 
children, as they romped, and frolicked among the woods and 
fields of the old Village of Conway. Per chance, the spiritual 
influence of Lot Hillman during those years, did much to 
mould the fine character with which Roswell, and his brothers, 
and his sisters, were favored in later years. The writer was 
impressed with a feeling that Lot Hillman would like us to 
cherish the memories of those sons and daughters, and the 
grandchildren, and relatives who were associated with the old 
house through so many happy years; and I promised then, and 
there, to do my best to cherish such memories by preserving 
for present, and future generations, a record of their better 
qualities, their ambitions, aspirations and accomplishments. 

Lof Hillman's children were as follows: 

John llillman (5), b. 1786; m. Reliance Keyes. She was. 1). IT'.ts; 
d. May 7th, 1858 in Conway, Mass. They had ten children. He died 
Fib. 2nd, 1858. 

Justin Hillman (5), son of Lot (4), and father of Dr. Roswell i 
llillman (6), b. 1792, Colrain, Mass.; m. Abilail Taylor. She was. I.. 
Sept. 28th, 1795, Charlemont, Mass.; d. April 11th, 1872 at ETaddonfield, 
X. J. He d. July 28th, 1866, Williamsburg, Mass. 

Presbrey Hillman (5), son of Lot (4), b. . 1788, 

Mass.; m. Edith Hitchcock, Nov. 13, 1808 at Conway, Mass.; d. March 
25, 1857, Colrain, Mass. 

Reuben Hillman (5), son of Lot (4), b. ; m. Anna Nims. 

Had four sons and one daughter, d. Colrain, Mass. 

Aiad Hillman (5), son of Lot (4); b. : m. Eliza 

She was, b. ; d. April 24, 1881, Northampton, Mass. He 'I 

March 9, 1886, Northampton, Mass. 

Eleazor Hillman (5), son of Lot (4); b. ; d. 

rain, Mass. 



IS THE II II. L.MAN FAMILY. 

Xuii.i Hillman (5), daughter of Lol (4); b. ; d. , 

Will i.i 1 1 \i 

Jemima Hillman (5), daughter of Lol (4); b. : tn, 

Calvin K'.\. . Jr. Intentions made known March 12th, 1808. d. 
• lolra in. Mass. 

Sails Hillman (5), daughter of Lol « i»; l>. ; d. , Col- 

rain, Muss. 

Prudence Hillman (5), daughter of Lol (4); l>. June 2.".. 17m:, 
Martha's Vineyard; m. Daniel Dwight, L800. He was, b. July 2, 1 77 s. 
Williamsburg, Mass.; d. Ann. Huh. 1805, Williamsburg. Il< was son 
of Ensign Josiah Tabitha (Bigelow) Dwight. d. December 23, 1864, 

\\'illi;i msburg, Muss. 

Drusilla Hillman (5), daughter of Lot (4);b. ; d. 

Shelbourne Falls, Mass. 



CHAPTER III. 



POSTERITY OP JUSTIN HILLMAN (5), DR. ROSWELL S. HILL- 
MAN (6), JAMES W. HILLMAN (7) AND THE 
AUTHOR, H. W. HILLMAN (8). 



Justin Hillman (5) evidently moved from Colrain to the old 
Hillman house in Conway, about 1800-1810. He must have 
been there in 1815, because Roswell Hillman was born there. 
He married Abigail Taylor, from Charlemont, Mass., and they 
raised thirteen children on the old homestead. The writer 
cannot understand how such a large family could live in such 
a small house. The chances are, that they lived mostly an 
outdoor life, Summer and Winter, and grew to be strong, 
healthy children. There is every reason to believe that they 
were exceedingly fond of each other. The writings of Dr. 
Roswell Hillman, years later, indicate very great affection for 
his brothers and sisters. Roswell, Jerome, and Fred left the 
old place after reaching maturity, and took up their abode in 
Williamsburg, and as the daughters were married, and left 
home, Justin and Abigail moved to Williamsburg, evidentl) 
desirous of being all together again. It was a trait of the Hill- 
mans to remain together, and to visit from family to family 
very freely. It is pleasing to have so many evidences of the 
especially close relations which existed among the members 
of Justin Hillman's family. In a letter dated December 20th, 
1879, from Manchester, N. J., Dr. Roswell Hillman, son of 
Justin, brings back tender reminiscences of an evening in the 
old house at Williamsburg, Mass. I quote from the letter as 

follows : 

"In another view, I see myself riding at full speed homeward 
bound, in anticipation of meeting my brothers and sisters, and their 
companions, and children, in the evening, in the form of a surprise 
party at father's. I arrive at home, and am lucky enough to find no 
call to take me away. 

After dark, to avoid being seen by father, and mother, the Hill- 
man" tribe come, some from one direction, and some from another; and 
all center at my house for the purpose of marching in a solid body t" 
the opposite shore. (His father's house was across the River). Jim 
is sent over to engage father's attention in a game of checkers in the 
kitchen to enable us to enter the sitting room unobserved. 

When all necessary arrangements are made, we leave my house, 
each one being loaded with something designed to gratify our palafr 



20 THE llll. I. MAN FAMILY. 

W< in.ii'ii in cross ili>' bridge, and enter the house In 

■ordance with our arrangements. Wi stand in the sitting room, 
nol lighted), -tin holding the good things which are soon to 
the tables. We screw our mouths into the proper shape for 
O i Hundred." .lust as the abdominal muscles begin to con- 
for the purposi ol forcing air from the lungs through the vocal 
them i" vibrate, Lo! and behold! father (having 
rted for thi sitting room to get something pertaining to the checker- 
board) opens the door, throws up both hands, and exclaims in a loud 

torn ■' lil! Well we- don't — sing — "Old Hundred." 

The abdominal muscles, which were strained up for thai purpose, 
spend their force In producing loud, and long continued laughter. 

Mlrthfulness having partially subsided, we throw off all super- 
lluous apparel, and proceed to business. We have no Board of Direct- 
ach on< to know jusl whal to '1" in order to carry oul 

the programme with legance, and dispatch. Some haul oul i hi- 

tables; some spread the cloths; some arrange the dishes; some supply 
tables with knives and forks; some are cooking oysters, while 
others are loading the tables with the good things which our sisters. 
and sisters-in-law, have displayed their ability, ami skill in cooking. 
In about fifteen minutes after we enter the house, we are all 
t< 'I around the tables, and having divested our minds of all anxiety 
and care, and having for the time, forgotten the fact that disappoint- 
ments, and sorrow, pain and death, are sure to fall to the lot of each 
and every one of us. we are discussing the merits of the different 
dishes, cracking jokes, and enjoying as much real happiness as it is 
possible for mortals to enjoy in a world where it is known that every 

pleasure s passes away, and Is sure to be followed by sorrow-. 

The feasl being over, our brother Ozro, reads a poem (composed 
bj himself for the occasion), which we pronounce very appropriate. 
We now repair to the parlor, where brief speeches are made, in 
Cl on with presents to our aged parents. Father receives his 

sents with a ^ i degree of manly fortitude. But mother receives 

a twenty dollar hill, ami her chest begins to heave, ami her lips begin 

ie quiver. Shi receives a te i to], of the twenty, and her tears do 

freelj How. Susan, kind soul, now nes forward, and presents her 

with a towel about two yards in length, and requests her, with it. to 
wipe her tears aw ay." 

I In- above is indicative '>i the mam joyful occasions with 
which the) were favored, but above all. strikingly illustrates 
the love, and affection which they all entertained for each 
other. I want tn emphasize this point particularly. A few 
years later, tip- Hillman reunions, assisted to perpetuate this 

ne bond of affection among tin' 1 1 ill man relatii >ns a-- a large 
lamih . ami in tin- bn >ades1 sense. 

Edwin Field, of North Hatfield, grandson of Justin Hillman 

writes i >f him as f< '11' iws : 

"Justin Hillman. as I remember him. was a Christian of the Puri- 
tan type, full of wit. on, who loved to visit, and to receive and enter- 
tain h Is. Wle-n on the road, driving to visit some relative I 
have heard grandmother say he would income so impatient to get 
there that he would keep hitching hack ami forth on the wagon seat, 
apparently with tin view of hastening matters, ami short, -111111; the dis- 
tant When spending Thanksgiving with us. he has mustered us out 
ol d.., us in the evening, 1 \ moonlight, placed us in line, and sent us 
off at double quick, lie was a master hand at training steers, ami to 
phase him. J have l't them out of tin- ham in tile evening that he 




LEV] HIL1.MAN 






POSTERITY OF JUSTIN HILLMAN. 21 

might exercise his skill in handling them, and satisfy the pleasun 
which he derived from such sport. 

He was an out and out good man, too honest to accumulate much 
property; an inventory of his estate would read a few dollars and 
thirteen children; ten of them came to manhood's estate, and had 
families of their own." 

Justin and Abigail had good reason for feeling proud of their 
sons and daughters. They possessed fine characters, as will 
be shown later in this book. 

Justin Hillman died at Williamsburg in 1866, at the age of 
74. His wife died a few years later, having lived to be 77. 
They came from good stock; they lived good lives; they bred 
good children, and many of them. May their souls rest in 
peace for ever and for ever. 

Justin Hillman's children were as follows: 

Dr. Roswell S. Hillman (6), son of Justin (5), b. Augusl 9th, 1815, 
Conway, Mass.; m. Ruth White of Williamsburg, Mass. She was b. 
Api-il 15th, 1816; d. Nov. 3rd. 1S79 at Manchester. X. J. They had 
four children. M. second time, Hattie Guilford of Williamsburg, Mass. 
She was b. 1839; d. August, 1892. Williamsburg, .Mass. He d. July 
20th, 1896, Northampton, Mass. 

Jerome E. Hillman (6), son of Justin (5), b. Conway. Mass., 1835 

m. ; d. Northampton. Mass.. March 31st, 1895, age 60. 

They had four children. 

Fred O. Hillman (6), son of Justin (5). b. 1S37; m. Bell S. Pease. 
She was b. 1841; d. Oct. 27th. 1877, age .36. He d. Nov. 28th, 1880, 
Williamsburg, Mass., age 43. They had two children. 

Levi Hillman (6), son of Justin (5). 

Ozro Hillman (6), son of Justin (5), b. at Conway. Mass.. Dec. 
23rd, 1819; m. Fanny W. Lyman. She d. Northampton, Mass.. April 
7th, 1852, age 31. They had one son, Frank W. Hillman. who died 
Sept. 2nd, 1876, age 25; m. second wife, Catharine R. White. Provi- 
dence, R. I., Jan. 19th, 1871. She d. Providence, R. I., Dec. 12th, 
1875. He d. Marlborough, Mass., June 25th, 1885. age 65. 

Charles T. Hillman, (6), son of Justin (5), b. Nov. Inl'n; m. Persis 
Lyman Clark. She was b. Northampton, Mass., Jan. Kith, IS — . lie <l. 
Northampton, Mass., Aug. 27th, 1864, age 36 years, three months. Tin v 
had four children. 

Julia Hillman (6), son of Justin (5). b. - — ; m. I>. C. Pres- 

brey. They had four children. 

Elizabeth M. Hillman (6), daughter of Justin Co. b. July 4th, 
1817; m. in Williamsburg, Mass., Horace W. Field. He was. b. .Ian 
loth, 1814; d. Hatfield, Nov. loth. 1*88, age 74. She .1. June 23rd, 
isso. They had two children. 

Casta M. Hillman (6), daughter of Justin Co. b. Williamsbut 
Mass., Sept. 29th, 1841; m. Williamsburg, Mass., April 9th, 1863, Daniel 
Sumner Presbrey. He was b. at Willington, Conn., July 29th, 1839 
They had four children. 

Susanna Hillman (6), daughter of Justin (5), b. - 
Flood. They had one son. 

Dr. Roswell S. Hillman (6), was born in the old Hillman 
house at Conway, Mass., in 1S15. I lis early boyhood days 
must have been exceedingly happy. Likewise the period ol 



22 THE li I I.I.MAN FAMILY. 

early manh 1. for his ambitious character, and high ideals 

brought him continued promotion, and success. When a 

ung man, he learned the cobbler's trade, and we can imagine 
him day after day sitting at the shoemaker's bench driving 
pegs, ami working hard to earn the small waj immensurate 

with that character of work. He was mechanically "saving 
soles," but mentally, was wonderfully active in studying the 
medical profession. As he progressed in his studies, no doubt 
he often thought of the future when practicing as a full 
fledged physician, he would be in reality, "saving souls" of a 
much grander character than the shoemaker's bench afforded. 

While he was working at the cobbler's trade, he saved $100, 
and then made up his mind to strike out for broader fields. 
\n amusing incident which occurred at this time, serves to 
illustrate the high regard which he felt for the money accumu- 
lated, lie went to the hank to withdraw it. and insisted upon 
having the entire amount in silver dollars. The clerk told him 
it would be rather heavy, but he replied that he wanted it all 
in silver dollar-,. So he started off with a hag of Sioo in silver. 
deposited in the rear pocket of a long tail coat. 'The writer 
has often heard him say that he had hardly left the hank door 
when he regretted h i-> decision, hut was too bashful to go hack, 
lb- took the stage from Conway to Williamsburg, and when 
dismounting from the coach, the silver in his coat tail pocket 
irly threw him over backwards. 

The next we hear of him, he is married to Ruth White of 

Williamsburg. Mass. This was about [838 or }<). He had 

become so far advanced in the study of medicine, as to begin 

practicing as a physician in Searsville, Mass. Mis son. James 

W. I lilhnan of \< »rthampton, writes of him as follows : 

"My firsl remembrance takes me back to the place where 1 was 
born in Searsville, Mass. Ai the age of five or six years, 1 can remem- 
bi 1 of father riding to visit patients. In those days they used n> ride 
real deal on horse-back. I know father had saddle-bags which he 
■ I in throw across 1 to horse's back behind the saddle, and go like 
the wind on a little pacer that I remember well. A short time after 
thai he \\eiii to college at Cincinnati, <>lii<>. I « 1 « « no1 know how long 
he a e, but his diploma is dated Mas L3th, L848." 

Tin- author rails particular attention to the natural ability, 
and energetic character of this young man. Having left Con- 
wa\ only a few years before, with but $100 in money, he had 
in [848, established himself as a physician, was married, had 
two children, and had secured a diploma from the Medical 
College in Cincinnati. James Milhnan also adds: 




DR. ROSWELL S. Mil. I. MAN 




LOUISA H. HILLMAN COWING 

DAUGHTER OF DR. ROSYVELL S. HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF DR. ROSWELL S. HIL.L.MAN. 23 

"Father was also, about this time, building- a large two story and 
a half house in Williamsburg Village." 

Surely he was a man of remarkable energy. It is said thai 
his practice was very large; that he kept three In uses busy 
most of the time, day and night. In addition to his practice, 
he owned a large farm across the river from his house in Skin- 
nerville, which he cultivated with great care, and with success. 
For twenty years from 1846 until [866 he was one of the mosl 
prominent, and successful men in that section of the country. 

Referring to his characteristics, he was especially fond of 
horses. His skill, and judgment in selecting horses was 
evidenced in the speed, and beauty which his horses always 
exhibited. Many readers of this book will remember "( )ld 
Tiger," a black stallion, who carried the doctor day and night 
oyer the hills, for hundreds and hundreds of miles. 

It is said that old Tiger never knew what it was to be 
fatigued; he possessed a reputation for beauty, and speed, such 
as the noblest of animals only, can attain. My mother takes 
delight in talking about Dr. Hillman's cream colored ponies. 
She says: "They were round as an apple, perfectly matched, 
and could go like the wind." In connection with his harness, 
carriages, sleighs, and robes, Dr. Hillman was very particular 
to have the best, and when he "drove out," it was not an un- 
common thing for individuals to turn around, and watch his 
team until it had passed out of sight. 

While these years were exceedingly happy, and prosperous, 
the physical strain was too great, and gradually his health 
became seriously impaired. In 1866, he therefore sold his 
property in Williamsburg, and moved to Manchester, N. J. 
He purchased a farm there, and cultivated choice varieties of 
peaches, plums, cherries, grapes, apples, pears, strawberries, 
and other fruits; also other farm products such as sweel pota- 
toes, Irish potatoes, corn, beans, and all kinds of vegetables. 
During the twelve years' sojourn in New Jersey, he partiall) 
regained his physical strength, but intellectually, he 
reached a high stage of development. His letters during the 
years 1875-1879 were filled with beautiful thoughts, written in 
poetical style, and indicative of great depth of character. 
Many of these letters are copied in Chapter XIV. but par- 
ticular attention is called to the letter of December 20th, [879, 
in which reference is made by Dr. Hillman, to the death oi Ins 
wife Ruth. What great depth of sorrow is expressed in th H 
letter! Quoting in part as follows: 



_< 1 THE nil. I. MAX FAMILY. 

• I awake to present realities, and And myself still sitting in my 

,,i,l arm chair here in the New Jersey pines, alone, all alone; lonely, 

lonely, beyond description, six weeks hav< passed away since I was 

i the foundation of all my earthly joys, and still I feel jusl 

bad, and Ignelj as i did on the day of parting, and even mor< 

•i h , . sensation in the region of my hearl which 

to pierce mj vital powers, and destroy my interest in, and energy 

.: or write. This condition causes mi to exclaim: — 

My sorrows cause within my breast, 
A pain, from \\ hich I find no rest : 
i muse, and muse until my brain, 
As well as breast, is filled w it h pain. 

A1 times, waves of grief dash over me with a force that causes 
I,,,, i,, break out in the following strains: 

1 1. my hea it. my heart is bleedii 
< trief all earthly joy devours; 
Bitter, bitter grief is feeding, 
Daily, <>n my vital powers. 

i a in sad, and grave, and l ily; 

i Consolation n • imparl ; 

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus only 

i ;an relieve my aching heart. 

in this world I cannot single 
i nit (inc. sympal hizing friend, 

W'h.i. with me in thought can mingle 
i »r « ith me in feeling blend. 

In the future, all looks pleasant; 
There 1 hope to find repose; 

l :ut t >. Oh!! in the present, 
How l feel no mortal knows. 

There often comes o'er me, a wave 
in sadness, solemn as the grave, 
And linn I wish for solitude, 
(in w inch mi mortal will int rude. 

During the man) trials, and pecuniar} losses through which 
Dr. Hillman passed, he maintained a profound respect for the 
abilit} "i" his Lord and Master, to make his wife and himseli 
happ) and contented even under adverse circumstances. At 
the death of his wife, whom he loved so well, he endeavored 
nol i" complain, but to Feel resigned to the will <>t the Lord. 
Mis exact feelings in this resped are given in the following 
extracl Fn mi a letter written in [879. 

"Notwithstanding the disappointments and losses, pecuniarily 
which fell i" "in lol during the last dozen years, Lhose years formed 
1 he happiest poii ion of our lives. 

As we became dispossessed of everything sufficiently valuable to 
rivet our affections to earth, we earnestly sought to be adopted into 
the Greal Famllj of God, and to become heirs to an inheritance which 
is as abiding as 1 lod. 

Thai inheritance formed the great theme of our daily conversa- 
tion, and. through the mercy of Jesus Christ, we daily looked forward 



POSTERITY OF DR. ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 25 

with the pleasing anticipation of soon coming- into possession of it. 
The nearer we approached the realization of our fond hopes, the lighter 
seemed our earthly trial, and the more calm, peaceful, and thankful 
we became, until we gave vent to our true feelings in those Songs of 
Praise which I sent you last July, and which formed a pari of an ad- 
dress which I delivered in the Presbyterian Church, in Manchester, al 
Ruth's funeral." 

In 1880, Dr. Hillman left New Jersey, and came back to 
Williamsburg to live. For a few years, until he became well 
rested, he lived at the house of his son, James Hillman, in 
Northampton, Mass. The writer was a boy then, of about 10 
years of age. He remembers well, the reception which was 
accorded to Dr. Hillman upon his arrival in Northampton. It 
was suggestive of great love, and affection for a father, and 
brother, combined with the most profound respect for a great, 
and good man. 

Shortly after that, Dr. Hillman again commenced t<> practice 
medicine in the old Village of Williamsburg. He had reached 
his 65th year; yet at that time, and for a period of several 
years, he was favored with good health, and a successful prac- 
tice. At the age of 70, he walked with a good firm step, lie 
again drove through the Village streets of Williamsburg, a 
beautiful black stallion, and during the crisp Winter mornings. 
Dr. Hillman's sleigh bells gave evidence of a busy physician 
hurrving along to visit some patient in need of medical assist- 
ance. Many of the families whose physician he had been 
twenty years before, were glad to see him back, and he was 
soon doing a prosperous business. 

A few years later, he took for his second wife, Hattie (mil- 
ford of Williamsburg. They lived together happily for seve- 
ral years. She was a sister of Mrs. Dwight E. Clary. 1 )r. 
Hillman's residence was located adjacent to the Clary house. 
and on many occasions, the doctor was called upon to make a 
speech, write a poem, or in some way, lend his aid to complete 
the programme. At the wedding anniversary, of Mr. and Mrs. 
Clary, some years ago, the following appropriate poem was 
written, and presented by Dr. Roswell S. Hillman : 

Two parties worked up this affair. 
One set of friends were moved to spare 
The means to buy this chinaware 
For Dwight and Fannie, and their heir. 

The other set gave free as air, 
To buy for them this willow chair; 
Now, at this time, a greater share 
Of earthly gifts they cannot bear. 



26 THE II 1 1. 1. M W FAMILY 

Then lei us all unite In prayer, 

For spiritual gifts, both rich and rare, 

To fall "ii this mosl worthy pair, 

l'i ..in Him w ho holds them in His care. 

Thou, God, hasl given Dwighl his wife, 
To bless iiiui in his future lit"' : 
May he to her, a blessing be, 
in time and in eternity. 

1 1 sh<- t" him is counterpart, 
i i. may the two be one in heart, 
Ami all their mental powers unit 
To learn to know and do the right. 

Be t heir c lition what it may. 

May they In earnest ever pray 
Thai each the instrumenl may be 
To lift the other up to Thee. 

May strong desires to be like Th 

\\ii h fail ii and hope and charity, 

Within their bosoms daily dwell. 

And all improper thoughts expel. 

Maj puresl love with them abide, 
May wisdom be their constanl guide; 
Maj these, combined, in them create 
A cheerful, loving, happy state. 

Then maj the bliss be theirs to know. 
'The joys of heaven while here below, 
And then may they with real zeal, 
The i nil h of God to man reveal. 

< i, may they quaff eternal truth, 
Till t hey put mi Immortal youth; 
Until prepared to rise and reign 
Upon a lofty spirit plane. 

[f I'm- this pair we've asked too much, 
Be pleased to granl them only such 
As will to honor Thee conduce, 

And be t" them of real use. 

Dr. 1 1 il I ma 11 was a welcome guest at the 1 1 ill man reunions. 
Special attention was always paid to his words oi counsel, and 
he was honored for several successive years, by election as 
President of the Hillman Association. 

In 1892, his wife died suddenly, and once again, he was left 
alone. Believing that he would be more comfortable, and con- 
tented, it was arranged so thai he moved to Northampton, 
Mass., to live with his son James, and family. I [ere he enjoyed 
several years oi quiet, and peace, becoming somewhat feeble 
physically, but mentally, very keen and bright, until the last, 
when on July 20th, [896, he died al the age of 81. He was the 
finest gentleman the author ever knew; kind, and considerate; 
a scholar, a poet, and a man, in the highesl sense of the word. 



POSTERITY OP DR. ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 27 

DR. ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 

(BY H. W. H.) 

Roswell Hillman was the grandson of Lot, 
Whose body now rests in the old burial plot 
Near the old Hillman homestead, a few rods away, 
On the old Conway road, the villagers say. 

He was born among the hills, the fields and the woods, 
Favored only slightly with this world's goods; 
But with brothers and sisters, a good father and mother, 
They lived a simple life, devoted to one another. 

His early days were filled with praise . 

For the wonderful ways, in which Nature pays 
Her debt to mankind. She taught him to enjoy 
Those things which are best for a country boy. 

Wjth the Summer days amid'st rocks and rills, 
Running and romping among the hills, 
Wading and fishing in the mountain brooks, 
He became highly educated in Nature's books. 

Page after page he learned by heart; 
In Nature's ways he became tolerably smart, 
But of all the lessons, the best she taught, 
(Characteristics which cannot be bought), 

Was to cherish the good; to be meek and mild, 
Kind and gentle as a little child; 
To be earnest and courteous in every way, 
Yet cheerful and happy from day to day. 

His habits were simple, but his ideals high, 
He scorned what was mean, and would ne'er tell a lie; 
So his boyhood days were filled with reward, 
Encouraged by close association with God. 

His thirst for knowledge was of no ordinary kind, 
He well knew the power of a human mind 
When cultivated carefully, and trained to discern 
Those things which are best for a boy to learn. 

As a stepping-stone to gain his end, 
A shoemaker gave him shoes to mend; 
After paying his board and clothing himself, 
One hundred dollars was laid-by on the shelf. 

In between times he studied on medical matters, 
Absorbing information from a book which scatters 
Volumes of data, to those who will seek 
Knowledge, in regard to the sick and the weak. 

From Conway to Williamsburg he went by stage, 

At the latter place, starting business, at an early age, 

Hanging out his sign as country physician, 

Fully believing he could fill this honorable position. 

And now it was Roswell S. Hillman, M. D., 
Practicing medicine for a professional fee, 
Visiting the sick, making the weak strong, 
Perfecting his education all the day long. 

Crowned with success he could not hide, 
He sought and secured an attractive bride; 
She loved him truly, she loved him well, 
She loved him more than pen can tell. 



28 THE M ll.l.M W FAM H.V. 

Their love grew stronger day by day, 

They helped one another in every way; 

God gave them children, their hearts to please, 

Pirsl came James; then Louise. 

Later, Father and Mother Hillman came 

To live with them; jusl the same 

As in former years they had lived together, 

Through sunshine and storm; through all kinds of weather. 

Mi ppiness seemed i o ever Increase, 
in their home of joy, truth and peace, 
And all their days were filled with love, 
Si-nt down from llim who rules above. 

They ne'er forgol to offer praise 

To God, who blessed them in such ways 

Thai from month to month, and from year to year, 

Their home was filled with glad g l-cheer. 

For a temporary period the Doctor lefi town, 

'I'., attend College al Cincinnati; t<> gain further renown; 

ll. did nol desire iu become learned in Homer, 

But succeeded in securing a medical diploma; 

And upon his return success became greater, 
He accomplished things then which others tried later; 
Prom village to village he traveled incessantly, 
Treating patients and friends so very pi asantly, 

Thai popularity changed to affection; 

•|'in- country folks believed there was some connection 

Between the Doctor ami their family life: 

They nol only loved him. but also his wife. 

Thiii horses were busy day and night; 

On a Winter's morning 'twas a delightful sight 

'I'n see Ihe Doctor start nil his ride 

Behind his old friend, whom in- called "Tige." 

Dp-hill ami down-dale they wenl together, 

Night and day. regardless of weather; 

They were attaehe.i ii. each other, just like old cronies, 

inseparable, excepl when he drove the cream i ies. 

While the Doctor was a business man through ami through, 
Vim never could tell what he mighl do; 
Frequently he was wonl to "fool yer" 
By driving over ami getting Julia 

Tn ride "in wiih if m. instead of Jim, 
W'hn would have torn him from limb to limb 
ll.ni it nol been his fathi r, who was sine ide 

The girl he intended to make his bride. 

So the years swiftly passed, 
i 'mil the I >octor, at last, 

Worked so hard and s<> long, 

1 1. was mi longer strong. 

His business he sold; also the farm, 

I 'ill il did nol ca use any special alarm. 

For his miml was wonl to be contenl 
When he and his family in Jersey went. 

Phj ically the Doctor was weak as a lamb, 
Bui with his daughter Louise, ami Sam, 

Tin- help id' Jim, and Julia his wife. 

I'.nth Until and the Doctor took on new life. 



POSTERITY OF DR. ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. L ; |l 

With the outdoor exercise, the Jersey air, 
Free from medical practice and excessive care, 
His strength returned, and with it a demand 
To till the soil and cultivate the land 

Upon which he had located, and started farming 

To an extent, which was moderate; but not alarming 

Because the large investment represented a cost 

Which might make him a bankrupt, should there he a frost. 

His efforts were blessed with fruits plenty and rare, 

Fit to exhibit at a County Fair: 

Apples, cherries, strawberries and peaches 

Were among the products required at the beaches; 

And New York markets demanded the grapes, 
Which were shipped in quantities, packed in crates; 
Strawberries too, were required in large lots. 
Neatly packed in cases, box upon box. 

This method then was the practical way 
In which Dr. Hillman secured his pay 
For the expenditure of time, skill and labor 
To keep apace with his next door neighbor. 

Sprinkled in admist these passing years. 
Were hours of communion, in higher spheres; 
He was intellectually brilliant; highly refined, 
Experienced by Nature in the ways of mankind. 

His letters were filled with thoughts most rare, 
His language was chosen with the utmost care; 
The verses to Jim and sisters and brothers 
Were more highly prized than any others. 

In fact, he was a skillful poet; 
The author desires that all should know it; 
Upon this point, it is fitting to dwell; 
His writings prove he deserves it well. 

With attributes many, he was plentifully blessed; 
That which, I think, towers above the rest. 
Was the love and respect for his faithful wife, 
With whom he spent nearly all his life. 

It was a sad blow to his aching heart. 
To have his wife from him depart; 
His faith in God was sorely shaken; 
At times he felt he was nearly forsaken. 

But God's ways are many, and in some form 

He will lead us through night, to a glorious morn; 

And with night and day so closely blended. 

We will welcome one when the other is ended. 

So Roswell S. Hillman, believing in God. 
Secured all through his life, a glorious reward; 
From his earlier days, to manhood's age. 
He had little to regret, in his life's written page. 

As a son he was worthy, honest and true; 
As a husband devoted, a generous father too; 
As grandfather, I know he was loving and kind, 
And as great-grandfather, no better could we And. 

Representative citizen, and a good Christian man. 

Find a better neighbor, if you possibly can; 

A physician, a scholar, a poet as well; 

On earth he was happy; in heaven may he dwell 



30 THE HI LI. .MAN T \M1I.Y 

in |p> ace, love a nd i ruth, 
Joined, once again, \\ itii Ruth, 
Lei all i he angels sing In glad refi i 
For Roswell Hillman Is home again. 

i.. i there be a joyful Reunion, with Fred and Jerome, 
To welcome him back i" the dear old home; 
I .. i father and mother, and daughter Louise 
Rejoice with the others, as much as they please. 

There will be no more parting; no more tears; 
There will I"- beautiful joy for millions >>f years; 
And this grand Reunion will be forever classed 
Besl of all others held in the past. 

Schenectady, N. Y., June 18, 1905. 

I M. I lillman's children were as follows: 

James W. Hillman (7), son of Dr. Roswell S. Hillman (6) ; 
1). April 25, 1841 ; m. Julia Sherman of Worth ington, Mass. 
She was. 1). Nov 23, 1842 

The) had three sons, no daughters. This is the father of 
the writer (II. W. Hillman). He was a veteran of the Civil 
War of [861, serving three years, and was honorably dis- 
charged. 

Belle Hillman (7). b. Feb. 4th. 1845 i d- Sept. 1 ith. 1845. 

Charles G. Hillman (7), b. June 20th, 1850; d. Sept. 8th. 

[857- 
Louisa H. Hillman (7). m. Samuel D. Cowing. He was. b. 

Chester, Mass.— , 1839; she d. Manchester, N. J., Feb. 

2nd, [878. Their children were: 

Charles Cowing (8), b. Williamsburg, Oct. 12th; d. Manchester, N. 
J., Feb. 24th, L878. 

Viola Cowing (8), b. Williamsburg. July 5th; m. Manchester, N. J., 
Gill Hankins. 

Ella Cowan (8), b. Manchester, X. J., July 27th. 
Eva Covven (8), b. Manchester, N. J., Dec. 5th, 1ST2; m. Manches- 
ter, x. J., John Reynolds. 

Sarah Cowan (8), l>. .Manchester, N. J., July 17th. 

Samuel Cowing was married secondly to Jennie Fifer. She- 
was born Pemberton, Nov. 28th, 1852. 

James W. Hillman (7) was born in Williamsburg, April 
25th, 1S41. 1 [e had more than the ordinary advantages of the 
average boy of those times, as his father was well-to-do. They 
• ■wind a large house, kept several good horses, and were ex- 
dingly prosperous. As a result, James Hillman was fav- 
ored with excellent opportunities. One of the advantages 
which appealed mostly to his character, was the study of 
music. He was skillful with the violin, and when a young 



POSTERITY OF JAMES \V. HILL.MAX. 33 

As such experiences tend to bring- God nearer, 
So likewise they make the voice clearer; 
And musical tones which were heretofore choice, 
Had been enrichened in Jim's beautiful voice. 

When Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant, 

There was every opportunity to sing- and chant, 

To shout and yell and greatly rejoice. 

As was evidenced by the tones from Jim's beautiful voice. 

Tiny sang all the way when homeward bound. 

They sang with a will, when their mothers were found. 

One soldier sang with only one limb, 

But it made no difference when you considered Jim. 

His voice was as clear as the evening bell. 
His tones were so sweet you could hardly tell 
Whether some angelic choir had not come down to earth, 
Singing the songs of old as at Christ's birth. 

Xow peace was the watchword, and the home fireside. 
With Julia Sherman as a Williamsburg bride, 
Was blessed with comfort, happiness and leisure, 
While Jim's beautiful voice offered additional pleasure. 

Once more there was music in the old Searsville home. 
Father and mother were glad he had come; 
Sister and uncles, with all the village boys. 
Were happy to hear the sound of Jim's voice. 

Grandfather Hillman, and Grandmother too, 
Were so happy, they didn't know what to do; 
But when Jim's voice they once more heard. 
A silent prayer was offered to God. 

They were thankful that God had spared the boy; 
Thankful for home, with all its joy; 
Thankful for love, and peace and pleasure; 
Thankful for the voice which was such a treasure. 

And Sunday came, and now once more 
Jim's beautiful voice was there, as before. 
In the church choir; and they sang once again. 
Peace on earth, good will toward men. 

And in after years, with a wife and three boys, 
A parlor organ, and a beautiful voice, 
Jim's home became famous for music and song, 
Good cheer and good fellowship, all the day long. 

Uncle Fred Hillman and Uncle Jerome, 

Frequently visited Jim's happy home; 

Uncle I'M. Field and Uncle Hen, to,,. 

Came when it rained, and they had nothing to do. 

They were farmers in Hatfield; large tobacco growers; 
During sunny weather, stayers; during rainy weather goers. 
'Twas pleasant to have them visit Jim's again. 
Notwithstanding their habit to come in the rain. 

And Uncle Fred Richards was frequently there; 
Whether it rained or shined he didn't care; 
On Sunday afternoon before he was seated long, 
He was wont to say "Jim give us a song." 

And with Grandfather Hillman in the old arm-chair, 
With us boys standing around almost anywhere, 
Jim would sing the old songs so sweet and clear. 
'Twas pleasant to listen; pleasant to hear. 



3-J THE 1111. 1. MAX FAMILY. 

Sinn those happy til have swiftly fled; 

Uncle Jerome has been taken; so has Uncle Fred; 

indpa Hillman Is g Uncl< Fred Richards too; 

Those \\ li" are left, are only ;i few. 

The organ we loved so much t" hear, 
Which graced Jim's home for many ;i year, 
ii. i- also been taken away from there; 
God grant ii may \»- cherished with care. 

All honor to the voice which <'."il in heaven gave, 
To iin boy, to Mi. man, to the soldier brave; 
When Its sweet tones are silent, the angels will rejoice. 
For heaven will be favored with .lim's beautiful voice 

Schenectadyi N. Y.. June L6, L90 

James \\ . Hillman lia<l three children as follows: 

Fred E. Hillman (8), b. [866, April <;th : m. Alice Squires. 
They have two boys, Leon and Clifford. 

Fred K. Hillman, son of James \\ '.. and Julia Hillman. was 
born al Manchester, \. I.. Vpril 9th, [866. When very young, 
his parents moved to Northampton, Mass., where he was 
raised to manhood. He had the advantages of a common 
school, and High School education. At the age of 15 or 16, 
entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Com- 
pany, and while delivering messages, was able to master the 
art of telegraphy. Mot being in the best of health, however, 
he dropped this work, temporarily, and took up farming at 
North Hatfield, Mass. He was very faithful, and performed 
his work in the entire satisfaction of Mr. 1 .art let t . with whom 
he was asociated for, several years. His habits were good, and 
his association with both the old, and the young people, dur- 
ing those years, were such that they retain pleasant recollec- 
ti( >ns 1 »f his s< »j( turn at thai place. 

He felt, however, thai he was not getting as broad an expe- 
rience as he might secure elsewhere, and having already ac- 
quired the art of telegraphy, sought, and obtained a position 
as Station A.gen1 at Smith Vernon, Mass. He established him- 
self as a Full-fledged operator, and later secured a better posi- 
tion (of the same character), at Northfield, Mass. The author 
remembers visiting him at that place; and together, we drove 
over one evening to Dwighl L. Moody's school. It was a 
delightful spot, surrounded by the most beautiful natural 
scenery. The visit was one which will be long remembered. 
as we talked over old times, discussed our relative positions, 
compared notes, and planned campaigns for the future. About 
[893, he was married to Alice Squires, who resided at Belcher- 




H. \V. HILLMAN 




MRS. H. W. HILLMAX 
STANLEY IRVING HILLMAX IREXE TAYLOR HILLMAX 



POSTERITY OF HARRY W. HILLMAN. 35 

town, .Mass. They moved to Three Rivers, where he was em 
ployed as Station Agent and Operator. Their two children 
were born at that place, and their early married life was spenl 
there. 

A few years later, he was favored with an excellent oppor 
tunity for becoming connected with a large electrical manu- 
facturing establishment at Lynn, Mass., and therefore once 
again changed his business; likewise his residential location. 
This move was a good one for he was soon promoted to a posi- 
tion of responsibility, and greater value. The writer person- 
ally knows his ability, and the earnestness with which he 
transacts his business. It is that same earnestness of purpose 
which has characterized all the Hillmans, and which as men 
tioned in the preface of this book, has enabled many of the 
Hillman descendants to attain positions of honor, and value. 

Harry W. Hillman (8). b. Aug. 30th, 1870. Manchester. \. 
J.; m. Nov. 23rd. 1802. Northampton, Mass.. Snsan M. Taylor. 
They have two children as follow r s : 

Irene Taylor Hillman (9), 1). Jan. 14th. 1S95, Schenectady, X. Y. 

Stanley Irving Hillman (9), son of Harry W. Hillman (S). b. Jum 
2nd, 1897, Schenectady. N: Y. 

George Roswell Hillman (8), b. May 18th, 1874. NTorthamp 
ton, Mass.: m. Ethel Hayes, Northampton, Mass. They have 
three children, Ralph Hayes Hillman (9), Gladys Hillman (9), 
Roswell James Hillman (9). 

George Roswell Hillman was the son of James \\ . and Julia 
S. Hillman. He was born in Northampton, Mass., May 18th, 
1874. His school days were spent in this town, and at the age 
of about 15. he became associated with a local industry, in the 
manufacture of paper boxes. His work for several years was 
of a very satisfactory character. He was not only active, and 
skillful in connection with his work, but was considered 
reliable and trustworthy. 

About 1898. he became connected with the Northampton 
Electric Street Railway Company, with the view of learning 
the business. During the years he was associated with thai 
Company, he secured a good practical knowledge of the 
operation of the various branches of the business, including 
methods of repairing, handling complete cars, and other 
detail parts. 

In the Fall of 1904. he became associated with the same 
large electrical manufacturing plant at Lynn. Mass., with 






THE HILL.MAN FAMILY, 



which his brother Fred had been connected for some years, 
and moved his famih to thai place At this writing, (May. 
1905) he holds a good position in that Company, and with a 
knowledge of the business secured in the Electric Railway 
mpany at Northampton, together with his good habits, de- 
termined character to succeed, and the natural ability which 
he ; ses, his future prospects look encouraging. 



CHAPTER IV. 



POSTERITY OF REUBEN (5) AND LYSAXDER EI LI -MAX ( •; i . 



Reuben Hillman (5), fourth son of Lot Hillman ; b. - 
m. Hannah Xims. They had five children as follow-: Lysan- 
der, Snead, Reuben, George and Emily, all residents of Col- 
rain, Mass. 

Lysander Hillman (6), son of Reuben Hillman (5), 1). 
June 18th, 1815: m. 1842, Conway, Mass., Sarah 1 1 am well. 
She was, 1). Conway, Mass., March 13th, 1819; d. East Charle- 
niont, Mass., Jan. 1865. He d. June 30, 1896, Charlemont, 
Mass. 

"Lysander Hillman was born in Colrain, Mass., June 18th, L815, 
the eldest child of Reuben and Anna (Xims) Hillman. He was a very 
sickly child, and during his youth, gave little physical promise of living 
to manhood, but from a family of five, he outlived them all. 

His parents were wen-to-do farmers' people, and his boyhood's 
life spent in work and play on the farm, gave him the health which 
with regular habits gave him a longer life than is alloted to the ma- 
jority. 

He received his education in the district schools of his native 
town, and later, spent sometime at Franklin Academy, Shelbourne 
Falls, Mass. 

He had a strong desire for a college education, but his parents 
opposed it, and he yielded to their wishes. 

He began when quite young to teach school, and was so successful 
that after his reputation in that line became known, his services were 
regularly sought. 

When a young man, he went to New Jersey, then the West, to New 
Englanders, requiring more than one day's journey partly by stage 
coach. 

He had thought of locating there, but having contracted lever. 
and ague, he returned home after a year and a half spent partly in 
teaching, and partly in farm work, when able to work at all. 

In 1S42, he was married to Sarah Hart well of Conway, who ha, I 
been one of his pupils in one of the winter terms of school there, 
was also a teacher of good reputation. 

Just before his marriage he bought a farm, ami sell led in Last 
Charlemont, where they lived for a few years. 

Later, they lived in Conway, Colrain, Ashfield, ami Hen back in 
Charlemont, where his wife died in 1865, and in which town the re- 
mainder of his life was spent. 

He was married a second time in 1868 to Miss Catherine I ». Smith, 

an adopted sister of his first wife, who was a good Her to his mo 

erless children. 



38 'I'll E II I LI. MAX PAW II.V. 

ii. learned the carpenter's trade, and worked pari of the time 
al thai besides :< good deal of teaching winters, and work <>n the farm. 
One winter term he taughl when he was nearly 60 years of age, the 

n.iii. ,- of a town nol tar from Charlemonl wanting for thai winter, 

;i teacher who could manage a school which had Riven its instructors 

real deal of trouble. That he had a successful and pleasant term 

was a tribute to his ability which was by no means lessened with the 

laps, of time. 

Mi. Hillman had a strong intellect, and reasoning powers of more 

than ordinary scope. He was always f 1 of debate in the Lyceums 

which when he was a young man wire popular al thai time. He 
served several terms on the School Board In Charlemont, and his ser- 
vices as Committee were always performed with the best interest of 
schools and pupils at heart. 

lii early life, he became a Christian, and his long life was consist- 
ent with this early profession. He had a brave, strong spirit, and an 
even temperament, which helped him to bear trials which might have 
crushed some of a less hopeful character. Of his eight children, the 
three oldest and his wife were taken from him in the short space of 
two and one half years. The oldest son gave his life for his country. 
and the oldest daughter was a girl of unusual mental ability, and a 
young teacher of greal promise. A few years later, two more children 
wire taken, hut the father's Christian faith, and brave spirit sustained 
him under heavy affliction. To the end id' his life, he was very fond 
of young company, and kept his youthful spirit and an unusual inter- 
est in all social gatherings, and in keeping in touch with not only im- 
mediate relatives, hut distant cousins of whom, in the Hillman family, 
ill, i , were a greal many. 

on account of this family Interest, the thought of a Hillman Re- 
union presented itself t<> him and by correspondence and talk with a 
fi w of them, the first one was appointed at Charlemont. 

He was always the moving spirit in keeping up the Reunions and 
helped as much as any one in making them the success that they were. 
While he lived, hi' never missed hut one Reunion, ami then was watch- 
ing by the bedside of another beloved son who within a day or two 
passed on to a better land, leaving only two of his large family to he 
i in- comforl of his declining years. 

Mis last illness was of short duration. When having just passed 

-.1st birthday, he was stricken with a stroke of paralysis. He was 

aide to talk, and expressed the wish that if he could not he well and 

active again as before, he should go soon. God gave him bis request, 

alul be entered into rest J U II e 30th, 1896." 

The foregoing was written 1>v L,ysander Hillman's daughter, 
Mrs. Sadie Hillman Foster. The author desires u< add thai 
Lysander Hillman was the backbone of the Hillman Reunions. 
Al the firsl meeting of the Association at which there were 
more than fifty present, they chose him for their first Presi- 
dent. Me nol only acted as I 'resident mi that day ( ( )ct. [8th, 
[876), and during several years, hut went tii the trouble of 
recording the minutes of many of the first meetings in order 
thai the proceedings might he preserved. I give below, a 
copy id' his record for the first meeting which may be particu- 
larl} interesting t « > Uncle Clark I 'resbrey, and Aunt Julia; per- 
haps t'> others who may have been prevent al that meeting. 




LYSANDER HILLMAN 

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE HILLMAN ASSOCIATION 



POSTERITY OF LYSANDER HILLMAN. 39 

RECORDS OF THE mLLMAX REUNION HEM) IN CHARLEMONT 

OCT. 18th. 1876. 

"Consultation in regard to meeting of friends and relatives of th< 
descendants of Lot Hillman had been held by letter among the grand- 
children of Lot Hillman: and the only son then living, Capt. Ara.l Hill- 
man of Northampton; and a eheerful assent made to the plan, friends 
met in the Methodist Episcopal Vestry. The day was a clear crisp 
October day, and Jerome, and Fred, of Williamsburg were the flrsl 
ones to put in an appearance. Soon over fifty weir seated, or stand- 
ing in groups, reviving old acquaintances, or forming new. Lysander 
Hillman was chosen President, and Fred Hillman. Secretary. 

It was on the basket picnic plan; but tables being in the hall they 
were set; amply furnished with food which was partaken of with a 
relish. Social conversation, and impromptu from such as bit disposed 
to make them, filled the time till the hour of parting came. 

So much was this first gathering enjoys .1 that L. C. Presbrey 
moved that we meet next year in Charlemont. which was voted unani- 
mously. 

The records of this meeting were not put on this book by the 
secretary, he dying before transferring them, which accounts for my 
name appearing here. 

LYSAXDER HILLMAN." 

As further evidence of the interest, and enthusiasm which 
he exhibited for the Hillman gatherings, 1 quote from a news- 
paper clipping August, 1891, under Haydenville, .Mass., items, 
which forms a part of the minutes of the [6th annual reunion. 

HAYDEXVILLE HILLMAN REUNION. 

"The descendants of Lot Hillman, and kindred branches of the race, 
met at the sixteenth annual reunion in Haydenville, Wednesday, Aug. 
26th. at the residence of Francis Loomis. Mrs. L., being one of the 
branch of the race. The occasion was one of genuine hospitality and 
good cheer, sixty-five persons partaking of the good things on the 
bountifully spread table. When dinner was nearly over. Lysander 
Hillman, the originator of the reunions and one of the oldest members 
present, was seen approaching, footsore and weary, having missed 
train connections at Northampton, and walked a distance of six miles. 
He was greeted with three rousing cheers. This gentleman, who is a 
resident of Charlemont, Franklin County, .Mass., has attended every 
reunion save one, and was then detained at the bedside of a beloved 
son, who passed suddenly out of this life in the prime of vigorous 
young manhood, about that time, leaving a host of sympathizing 
friends to mourn with the aged father, his great loss." 

In reading through all the minutes of tlf Hillman gather- 
ings, the writer was impressed with tin- remarks of Lysander 
Hillman at the tenth annual meeting, extracting ;i s follows: 

"Lysander Hillman, following the train of thought, started by Dr. 
Roswell Hillman, told the young how to think. Tiny should think 
readily, think quickly, and form a habit of putting Heir whole con- 
tinued thought hard on one subject when needed." 

These few words serve to illustrate the character of the man. 
He was 70 years old. yet possessing such a high degree ol m< 
tal ability as to emphatically emphasize the necessity of tin 
young men to cultivate their powers of thought ; to train theii 



Ill THE llll. I. MAN FAMILY. 

minds for an emergency, and tlms place themselves in a posi- 
tion mentally, to safel) pass over some nnforseen crisis later 
in life. 

It is with pleasure that the writer makes special mention of 
Lysander Hillman, and takes this opportunity of again thank- 
ing his daughter, Mrs. Sadie Hillman Foster, for the bio- 
graphical sketch relating to her father's life. 

Lysander Hillman had eight children as follows: 

Sarah A. Hillman (7), b. 1844; d. 1863; age 19. 

Fordyce L. Hillman (7), b. 1845. He was killed in the Civil 
War. 1864, after having served three years; age L9. 

Emilj r. Hillman (7), b. L849; d. Nov. 1862; age 13. 

Francis ll. Hillman (7), b. Nov. 7th, L852; m. Delia R. Ballard, 
Jan. 15th, lsT'.e They had one daughter, Mabel A. Hillman, b. Aug. 
I 2th, 1881; d. Aug. 29th, i884. 

Willie P. Hillman (7), b. June 2nd, 1864; d. December-, IS70. 

Herbert ('. Hillman (7i, b. Oct. 1st, 1856; m. Orpha L J ; , eno, Nov. 
1881. They had three children. Francis T. Hillman. b. Nov. 1882. 
Clarence Hillman, b. L885. Willie Hillman, b. Oct. 1888. 

Mabel L. Hillman (7), 1>. .Jan. 21st, 1856; d. 1868. 

s;i ( |ic p. Hillman (7), b. Sept. 29th, 1864, Easl Charlemont, Mass.; 
in. Aug. Till, 1891, Rowe, .Mass.. to Charles II. Foster. He was. b. 
Shelbourne Kails. Mass.. Feb. ll. is6. - 5. They had four children, Edith 
Frances Foster, l>. .Ian. 21st, 1893, Charlemont, Moss. Kobert Hill- 
man Foster, i>. Sept. 28th, 1894, Charlemont, Mass. Maud Emily Fos- 
ter, b. Dec. 12th. L896, Charlemont, Mass. Ralph Thayer Foster, b. 
.1 1 1 1 1<- 201 h, i 898, « !harlemont, Mass. 

George C. Hillman (7), son of Geo. Hillman (6), and grand- 
on of Reuben (5) ; b. East Charlemont, Mass., Jan. 28th. 1S47; 
in. Shelbourne Falls, Mass.. Oct. 7th, [869, Dorothy Trow- 
bridge Covell. Sin- was. l>. Buckland, Mas-.. They had three 
children. 

I ,iii\ Alice Hillman (8), b. Grand Junction, Iowa, 
Covell Hillman (8), b. Grand Junction, tovva. 

1 diii. Cos i 1 iiiniaii iNi. I). Grand Junction, [owa. 



CHAPTER V. 



POSTERITY OF JEROME HILLMAX (6). FRED O. HILLMAX (6), 

ELIZABETH HILLMAX FIELD (6), EDWIN FIELD (7). 

AND HENRY FIELD (7). 



Jerome Hillman (6), son of Justin Hillman (5), 1). 1835, Con- 
way, Mass.; Sarah . She was, b. 1832; was 

drowned in Mill River flood Dec. 16th, 1874. age 42. lie mar- 
ried Hattie Hyde for his second wife. She has one daughter, 
Carrie Hyde. He died March 31st, 1895, Northampton, Mass., 
age 60. Jerome Hillman had four children by his first wife. 
Clara Hillman (7), b. ; m. . 



Lallie Hillman (7), b. ; d. Nov. 9th, 1861. 

Walter Hillman (7). b— — ; d. Sept. 27, 1S63. 

Lewis J. Hillman (7), b. - — ; d. Dec. 3rd, 1864. 

Jerome E. Hillman was born in Conway. Mass., in 1835. I [e 
was the son of Justin Hillman. His early days were spent in 
Conway, but when the Civil War broke out, he was one of the 
first to take up arms in behalf of this country. He made ap- 
plication for an enlistment in the 37th Mass. Regiment, 
August, 1862; but was rejected on account of poor teeth. He 
returned home, but later succeeded in enlisting, and was made 
Corporal in Company I, 52nd Mass. Regiment, October iitb. 
1862. He was honorably discharged with the Regiment, 
August 1 8th, 1863; but on December 15th. 1863, he enlisted 
again, and was assigned to Company H, of the 371I1 Mass. 
Regiment. When that Regiment was discharged, June 21 si, 
1865, Jerome Hillman was transferred to Company II, 20th 
Infantry. 

From the above, it will be noted that he was especiall) loyal 
to the cause. Upon his return from the war. he located again 
in Williamsburg, and there we find him at the time of the Mill 
River disaster on May 16th, 1874. when he exhibited such a 
degree of bravery as to be awarded a gold medal, commemora- 
tive of the event. The cuts on the opposite page, illustrate 
the character of the medal, and the inscription thereon. Tin- 



[2 THE II I 1. 1. MAN FAMILY. 

Springfield Sunday Morning Telegram of May — , 1874 — 

whose editor passed over the scene of the disaster — contains 

the fi Mowing acc< tunt : 

iioMii; nil. 111:1:0. 

"Another gentleman Jerome Hillman is also entitled i<> much 

l, •. He had been going from Haydenville to Skinnerville, to gel the 

mail, and nol aware thai Graves had been down to Haydenville, 01 
thai any danger approached, he starts for home. He had passed the 
VVork . and turned the bend towards Skinnerville, when he saw 
the water coming. He knew whal musl have happened; turned 
around, and drives back to Haydenvilje, meeting Graves, who was re- 
turning i" Williamsburg, and gives the firsl general alarm to the Vil- 
li,, rings Hi-- bell, and warns everyone he sees, bul within less 
than threi minutes, the factories, shops and dwellings were falling 

.,, in, greal destroyer. When the water subsided sufficiently for 
him i" return to Skinnerville, he soon saw the results of the terrible 

LS ter. Houses bad been swept away, and his own house had been 
despoiled, His wife, on attempting to reach higher ground, was over- 
taken, and drowned." 

The following item appeared in one of the newspapers May 

-. [874: 

"Jerome Hillman of Skinnerville, who was on horseback, saw the 

11 1 coming just after he bad passed the Brass Shops in Haydenville 

on bis wa\ imine. He turned about, and did efficient service; extend- 

the warning which Collins Graves was also spreading in the Vil- 
lage. Alter the flood bad passed. Mr. Hillman rode t<> Skinnerville in 
greal anxiety for the safety of bis wife, to find thai she, and bis house 
had been destroyed." 

Collins (".raxes" testimony before the inquest of the Cor- 
oner's Jury at the Mill River disaster May 30th, 1874, refers to 
Jm itne 1 [illman as follows : 

"Mel Jerome Hillman coming on horseback, at Capt. Kingsley's 
house, al the Dug-way, between Haydenville and Skinnerville— nearesl 
Haydenville. His horse was on a run. He said. "Turn around, the 
reservoir is right here." 

From the records of Jerome llillnian's life, it would appear 
thai he was a brave man: but the author personally knows ot 
other characteristics which he possessed, thai merited the 
respeel and love of his fellow men. 1 had the pleasure oi vis- 
iting him at Williamsburg, somewhere about the years iSS| 5. 
I It- had been married again to Mrs. I lattie I lyde, and was con- 
ducting a fish business; taking orders, and delivering down 
through the Villages adjacent to Williamsburg. The writer 
rode with him frequently on such trips, and was impressed 
with his wit and humor; his pleasing disposition, and kindly 
bearing. He was inclined to chat longer in some places than 
lime permitted, and then he would come running out to the 
wagon limn mine;- his favorite tune, "( Mice 1 was blind, hut now 




JEROME E. I1II. I. MAX 

HERO in I III u ILLIAMSBURG MILL Kl\ ER 1 l OOD 





MEDAL AWARDED TO JEROME HILLMAN FOR BRAVERY 
IN CONNECTION WITH MILL RIVER DISASTER 



POSTERITY OF JEROME HILLMAX. Jo 

I can see." Those with whom he was associated, loved him, 
and it was because he was good, and kind. He was exceed- 
ingly popular at the Hillman Reunions, having been Fortunate 
in attending the very first meeting, and for main years there- 
after, attended them regularly. 

His wife, and her daughter, Miss Carry Hyde, lived at 
Springfield, Mass., (May, 1905); but Jerome Hillman died at 
Northampton, Mass., March 31st, 1895, aged 00. 

In the third verse of the following poetry reference is made 
to Jerome Hillman, and it gives the author much pleasure to 
include the poem in this book. 

WILLIAMSBURG. 

(BY A. ELLA GREENE.) 

Attempt the scene at Williamsburg, 

And paint that fearful day 
When friends and families and towns 

Were sudden swept away. 

The eve before a peaceful sun 

Smiled on the valley green; 
And happy sang Mill River, then, 

Meandering through the scene! 

In mansion and in cottage, peace; 

At rest each busy mill; 
All deemed they had good lease of life. 

And pleasant seasons, still, 

And all was peace at break of morn; 

Mien waked from happy dreams, 
To hear the music of the birds, 

And warbling of the streams! 

Yon slight pent mountain lake 'gan burst, 

To plunge the valley down! 
A horseman rides in haste to warn 

The nearest dangered town! 

Then Graves takes up the warning cry 

And Hillman and brave Day, 
"Ye people of the valley homes! 

The flood! Quick! Haste away!" 

Swift came the floods and blotted out 

A hundred homes and more! 
And had not those swift couriers rode, 

There were a hundred score. 

But, heeding their prompt warnings given, 

To hillsides haste the throng; 
Yet many stay to be engulfed 

As sweeps the tide along! 

The strong built mills in atoms fall! 

And on the swollen tide, 
Large forest trees, houses and rocks 

In mixed destruction ride. 



II THE llll. I. MAN FAMILY. 

And roars the torrent down the vali 

To do still further death; 
And sweep still other towns away 

Wit li it - d< \ ouring breath. 

In one brief hour the work is done! 

And then the saddest seem- 
Thai after wars, or wasting fires, 

« '11 earl h hal h <\ er been. 

One wide destruction meets tin- eye 

i )n evei y hand t he dead; 
Strong, sunbrowned men weep like the child, 

And tremble with sun- dread! 

No time for words, no time for grief, 

No t ime for funeral train 
Bu( 'mong the wrecks and debris piles, 

All searching for the slain. 

Now that we breathe we question why 

Was this destruction made; 
And at whose door shall be the blame 

i if this great ruin laid. 

.Mill River Valley desolute, 

Its fields ami homes laid waste, 
Bears witness loud against the men 

Who built their walls in haste. 

As sad we gaze en Williamsburg, 

And mourn the lack >d' skill. 
That eest so many precious lives 
And busy store and mill ; 

We'll vow eternal hate for fraud, 

Ami eschew lies ami shams! 
I :<■ honest in our daily lives, 

Nor order fragile dams. 

A mi if it he this sacrifice 

Shall make the people wise. 
To tone our weeping there might well 

Some gratitude arise! 

Northampton (Mass.) Free Press, Sat. June 27 1874. 



HERO OF THE MILL RIVER FLOOD. 

(BY II. W. II. , 

Down through the valley of Searsville, Mass., 

The terrible Mill River Flood must pass. 

Jerome Hillman you're a here indeed, 

As you ride through the streets en your faithful steed. 

Ti i es a i e uprooted, houses are falling, 
Women are shrieking, children are calling. 
Jerome Hillman you're wonderfully brave, 

Alans' lives will he wrested from a wateiy grave. 
Such awful roarings! Sounds as from lull! 

Who is't ringing t he village bell '.' 
Jerome 1 1 illman you're a hero so t rue. 
God "ill most surely remember you. 




FRED O. HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF FRED O. HILL.MAX. 45 

Look! Many of the people have reached the hill-side, 

Saved from disaster; saved by the guide 

Of Jerome Hillman. whose valor on that day. 

Will be remembered after heaven and earth pass away. 

But look again! A woman is returning to secure something lost. 
Does she realize the danger? Docs she know the great cost? 
Jerome Hillman you're but human, and the wife whom you 

cherish. 
Cannot possibly be saved. She is doomed to perish. 

So the Mill River disaster cost Jerome Hillman his wife 
While his bravery saved others at the risk of his life, 
May those who read later about the heroes that day, 
All honor and respect to Jerome Hillman pay. 

His fame will be passed from generation to generation. 
His name will be spread throughout the whole nation 
And wherever you go upon land or sea, 
Among the list of heroes. Jerome Hillman's name will he. 

Schenectady, X. Y.. June 16. 1905. 

Fred O. Hillman (6), -mi of Justin Hillman (5). k iS ; 7 
m. Belle S. Pease. She was. 1). 1841 ; d. Oct. 27th. 1X77. age 
36. He d. Williamsburg, Mass.. Feb. 28th. 1880. age 43. He 
was a Mason of high standing at Northampton, .Mass. They 
had two children : 

Nellie Hillman <7). b. - — : d. Williamsburg, Mass.. April 

29th, ISM'. She was about 15 years old. 

Abfoie Hillman (7), b. — : m. - — . 

Fred (.). Hillman. son of Justin and Abigail, was born in 
1837. at Conway, Mass. He was married to Hell S. Pease. 
They had two children. Nellie and Abbie. In the minutes of 
the first Hillman gathering. Lysandcr Hillman speaks i^i Fred 
and Jerome being the first ones to make their appearance. 
Edwin Field has stated that they were the "fastest drivers he 
ever knew." This part of the story could be readily over- 
looked, when considering that they were the first ones present 
at the first Hillman Reunion. But James Hillman adds: 
"Jerome and Fred were fined 85.00 apiece on that day, by local 
authorities, for driving so fast over an old wooden bridge, on 
their way to the meeting." 

By glancing at the photograph of Fred Hillman, on the op 
posite page, one can notice a merry twinkle in his rye. Manx 
a good story can be told of the good wholesome fun of which 
Fred Hillman was the originator. The writer will never for- 
get the jolly time at Uncle Edwin Field's home at North Mat 
field. Mass.. at the 5th reunion in 1880. Tables were spread 
out under the trees in the yard. Eighty-three persons were 
seated at this jolly reunion dinner. Fred Hillman was the life 



Hi THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

• 'i the party. He was particularly fond of baked beans, and 
there was either a limited supply ( ?), <>r else they wen- bound 
to tease him in respect to the number <>!' helpings, with which 
he should be favored. It seemed thai almost every few 
minutes he was standing up on top of the- bench, yelling down 
to the other end of the table to James fiillman something like 
tin Following: "Jim pass those beans again." 

Referring further to the characteristic of Fred 1 1 ill man for 
creating fun, an amusing incident occurred at this same 
reunion, which may be worth relating. During the eve- 
ning, part of the entertainment consisted of vocal music, ac- 
companied b) the parlor organ. The writer was standing in 
fronl of the instrument enjoying the entertainment consider- 
ably, when, without warning, he grabbed me by the seat of 
my trousers. His vocal sounds increased in volume, 

\nd as the notes were raised in Ditches 
I le drew me up. and tore by breeches. 

This incident caused a considerable amount of fun for the 
party, although not particularly amusing to the writer. 

Fred Hillman was a Free Mason', and belonged to the 
Masonic Lodge at Northampton, Mass. 

( >n ( let. 27th. [877, his wife died, aged 36. ( >nly three years 
later, Feb. 28th, [880, he died. He was the unfortunate vic- 
tim 1 if a sad accident, lie had been engaged, personally, in 
shingling a barn which was part of the old Phillips property 
where he lived in Williamsburg. When removing part of the 

iffolding, his foot slipped, and he fell over backwards to the 
ground. Upon examination, it was found that his hack was 
broken, and he retired to his bed for the last time upon this 
earth. For forty days, he lingered between life and death. 
exhibiting a remarkable degree of pluck, and energy in a lasl 
human effort to live. Me was to have been married within a 
week from the date of the accident, and there seemed to he 
ever) reason why he ought to live, and enjoy the happiness 
which had been previously planned. It was ordained, how- 
ever, that he should die at that time, and after vain struggles, 
hut resigned t" his fate, he passed into eternity, Feb. 28th, 
[88( >. aged 43. 

The writer again calls attention to the character of the face 
"I Fred Hillman, as illustrated by his photograph. Note the 




ELIZABETH HILLMAN FIELD AND HER 
HUSBAND, HORACE W. FIELD 



POSTERITY OP ELIZABETH HILLMAX FIELD. 47 

pleasing expression, and then imagine that he was brim full of 
fun. The photograph of his daughter Nellie is also indicative 
of a pleasing disposition. At the age of 15, she was a beauti- 
ful girl, and a favorite among the young people id tin- town. 
The writer remembers a visit to her house having in mind a 
day of pleasure; hut upon arriving" at her home, learned that 
her funeral was being held that same dav. She had contracted 
the dread disease, diphtheria, and within 48 hours, was beyond 
earthly assistance. 

Elizabeth Hillman Field (6), daughter of Justin Hillman(5), 
1). July 4th. 1817; m. Horace W. Field, Williamsburg, Mass. 
He was, 1). Jan. 10th, 1814, Sunderland, Mass-; d. Nov. 10th. 
1888. Hatfield. Mass. They had two children. She d. Hat- 
field. Mass.. June 23rd. i88o,.age 63. 

Elizabeth Hillman Field, daughter of Justin Hillman, and 
sister of Dr. Roswell Hillman. She was horn in the old Hill- 
man house, Conway, Mass. She married Horace W. Field at 
Williamsburg, and they moved to Hatfield, Mass., where a per- 
manent home was firmly established with two other genera- 
tions of Fields, who have lived there, and enjoyed a high de- 
gree of prosperity. Horace Field was thrifty, and inclined to 
economize; but it was the willing character, and ability dis- 
played by Elizabeth Hillman which led to prosperity; com- 
bined with a fair share of happiness. She must have been a 
real good mother, with a full sense of her highest duties, and 
an abundance of love for her family, because she produced two 
sons who have proven by their lives, that they enjoyed the 
teachings of a good mother. Her grandsons, and grand- 
daughters have also exhibited the Hillman characteristics, and 

have lived their lives in a manner representative of the g 1 

influence of Elizabeth Hillman Field. 

She died in Hatfield, Mass., June 23rd. 1880. aged (.3. a few 
years before her husband. They had two sons, Henry and 
Edwin Field. 

Henry Hillman Field (7). b. Hatfield. Mass.. ( >ct. 8th, [843 : 
m. Marietta Wade, Northampton, Mass.. Dec. 51b. - 

Henrv Hillman Field, second son of Horace W. and Eliza- 
beth Hillman Field, was born in Hatfield. Mass.. ( >ct. 8th, 
1843. He was only 19 years old when he entered tin- I nited 
States Army, and served one term with Company II. 37th 
Mass. Volunteers. The list given below, shows engagements 
through which they passed. 



IN THE HIL.LMAN FAMILY. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Fredericksburg, Dec. n. [862; Marye's Heights, May 3, 
[$63; Salem Church, May 3-4. [863; Franklin's Crossing, June, 
1863; Gettysburg, July 2-3, [863; Rappahannock Station, Nov. 
7. [863; .Mine Run, Nov. 30, [863; Wilderness, May 5-6, [864; 
Laurel Hill. May 8-9, [864;"The Angle.'* May 12. 1864; Spott- 
sylvania, C. M.. May [8, [864; North Anna. May 24, 1S04: Cold 
Harbor, June 1-12. [864; Petersburg, June 18, 18(14; Fort Stev- 
ens, July [2, 18(14; Charlestown, Aug. 21. 1X04; Opequan, 
Sept. [9, [864; Hatcher's Run, Feb. 5. [865; Fort Stedman, 
March j^,. 1865; Fall of Petersburg, April 2. r865- Sailor's 
Creek, April 6, [865. 

It is wall known that tin' 37th Mass.. was one of tin- most cut 
up regiments of the war. starting out from Pittsfield with its 
full quota of enthusiastic Massachusetts men. hut returning 
with only a handful to relate the details of their hardships and 
enct mnters. 

lie was commissioned Corporal, dating from July 1st. 18(14. 
and was discharged Corporal June 21st. 1865. 

IK' writes me: "( )ur service was mostly with the Army of 
the Potomac, hut for a time, we were under Sheridan during 
his campaign in tin- Shennandoah Valley- Our regiment at 
Winchester took into the field 296 muskets. Our loss for that 
da} alone (19th of Sept. [864) was <m men. and officers, so 
you see that we did our share of the lighting." 

The two illustrations are particularly interesting, one show- 
ing Henry Field with his knapsack and regimental fittings as 
he returned from the war. The other is a photograph of a 
piece of hardtack, which was the last ration issued to the 
Regiment just before they left Hall's Hill, Va.. and was made 
in 1803. He still has it in his possession, encased in a glass 
covered box, and values it highly as a relic of forty years ago. 

I pon his return home from the war. Henry Field installed 
himself as a farmer in North Hatfield. Mass. He married 
Marietta Wade December 5th, 186 — . Through the efforts <>f 
himself and two sons, the farm has brought them a good 
annual income, so that they have enjoyed prosperity. His two 
daughters have married as well as the sons, and at the present 
writing (May. [905), Henry Field and his wife are blessed 
with grandchildren whose voices around the old homestead 
give evidence of a new generation. 




CORP. HENRY IIII.I.M.W FIELD 

WITH KNAPSACK, CANTEEN, ETC., WHICH HE WORK DURING 
THE CIVIL WAR, AND NOW 1\ HIS POSSESSION 




HARDTACK IN POSSESSION OF CORP. FIELD 



REPRESENTING LAST RATION ISSUED TO THE ."th REGIMENT JUST BEFORE 
THEY LEFT HALL'S HILL, VIRGINIA, 1863 













RESIDENCE AND GREEN HOUSES OF II. WILEY FIELD, 
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



POSTERITY OP HENRY FIELD. I! I 

Henry Field had lour children as follows: 

H. Wiley Field (8), b. Hatfield, Mass., April 21st, 1868; m. Northamp- 
ton, Mass., Oct. 2nd. 1890, Clara Hines; d. Northampton. Mass., Dec. 
2nd, 1894. She had one daughter, Rachel Hines Taylor, b. Dec. 2nd, 
1894. He married for his second wife, Mabel Gertrude Craves, 
Northampton, Mass.. June 18, 1896. 

Carrie C. Field (8), b. Sept. 26th, 1869; m.— — . 

Myra J. Field (8), b. March 19th, 1871, Hatfield, Mass., m. Charles 
Edward Warner, Hatfield, Mass., Oct. 20th, 1894. A son Harold Field 
Warner; b. Hatfield, Mass., July 9th, 1896; d. May 14th, 1897. 

Edgar H. Field, (S) < b. March 31st, 1S73; m. Nov. 9th, 1897, Jessie 
May Ingram, South Dearfield, Mass. 

THE LAST RATION. 

(BY H. W. H.) 

The last ration had been given out, 

And from every soldier there came a shout 

Of joy and gladness; the time had come 

When the 37th Regiment should march for home. 

Corporal Field, among the first to go, 

To fight for our country against the foe, 

Was slow to return, when the call of the nation. 

Required the issuance of the last ration. 

For three long years the cannons' roar, 

Through twenty-seven battles (not less, and perhaps more), 

Made it difficult for him to yield, 

With the last ration issued to Corporal Field. 

But his work was done; the good fight was won, 
The foe had been conquered with sword and gun, 
And now that peace was the declaration, 
It was fitting to issue the last ration. 

Forty happy years have passed since then, 
When the last ration was issued to the men; 
In the place of camps and hard fought battles, 
Soon came the wife, and children's rattles. 

And as the boys grew up to be men, 
Corporal Field brought the hardtack out again. 
Which he earned in the fight for our beloved nation, 
And which hie always calls "Our last ration." 

He told them of battles won and lost, 
How the 37th fought at awful cost, 
For the country and all creation, 
Before they had issued the last ration. 

So the hardtack remains in a state of preservation, 
Representative of what we call "the last ration;" 
But the battles are over, the Regiment is home, 
No more to bivuack; no more to roam. 

And when the last call to arms is heard, 

Corporal Field will be there, without a word; 

His "last ration" on earth will be served, 

Heaven will be his home, as his work has deserved. 

Schenectady, N. Y„ May 23, 1905. 



50 THE II I I.I.MAN FAMILY. 

The illustration or the opposite page, shows the residence of 
1 1. \\ ile) Field <>\ Northampton, Mass., who was the first son 
of Henry Hillman Field, ami Marietta Wade <>f North Hat- 
field, Mass. He lefl home when a young man to take a posi- 
tion as Gardner, and General Supervisor of tin- grounds at the 
large Burnham School at Northampton, Ma^. In this posi- 
tion. In- not only fully satisfied his employer but he took such 
an exceptionally keen interest in his work, that it was not long 
bef< >re he was disatisfied to w< »rk for someone else. I lis ambi- 
tion led him to start in business tor himself. His habits had 
been excellent; lu- had been economical, and had accumulated 
some money. As a result, he was specially fitted to take np 
tin- business i >f a tl< »ris1 . starting with a green In >use 24X 1 1 fret. 
and now after a few years (May. [905) lu- has about 40.000 
square feet of glass. The product of his green houses is dis- 
posed of at his store in tin- city of Northampton, and he is now 
considered as one of tin- foremost merchants of that city. 

Ih- is married, and there is ever) reason to believe that he 
enjoys an abundant amount of happiness in the beautiful home 
which is illustrated in these pages. 

Edwin W. Field 171. b. Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 29th, [842; m. 
Pittsfield, Mass.. Dec. 20th, [864, Sarah M. Hall. She was. b. 
Nov. 1st, [840, Windsor, Conn. 

Edwin W. Field, first son of Horace \\ . and Elizabeth Hill- 
man Field. He was horn in Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 29th, [842, 
and has always lived within twentv rods from where he was 
born. As a farmer's son, lu- has keen content to till the soil, 
and tii make three blades ol grass grow, where one grew be- 
fore. Also to he able to raise corn cheaper than it could be 
bought. He has done both. He raises each season, eighteen 
acres of tobacco, which bring top prices; also sixteen acres oi 
onions, and from 2.500 to 3,000 baskets of corn. He carries 
about 35 head of stock- mostly milk COWS. He is the third 
generation on the farm, and his son Samuel, is in company 
with him; making four generations. Mr. field has added 
acres and buildings to the original farm so 1 li.it it now con- 
tains 2O0 acres. 

Tin- writer is personally familiar with tin- Edwin Field farm. 
having as a bo} spenl happy vacation days there at I nele 
Ed's. I have walked the pole hangers at the top of tin- 




HENRY .WD EDWIN FIELD'S FAMILIES 




EDWIN W. FIELD 

SON OF ELIZABETH HILLMAN FIELD 



POSTERITY OP EDWIN W. FIELD. 5] 

tobacco barn, playing "Stump the Leader"; have tumbled 
in the haymow", and raked after the cart in the field. I lave 
inspected the corn fields, and seen acre after acre of the finesl 
tobacco in the country, growing upon the farm of Edwin Field, 
North Hatfield. Mass. Further. 1 can testify to the energetic 
and skillful manner in which this farm has been cultivated. 
The best of results are his due. considering the earnest efforts 
which he has put forth. 

Throughout his entire life. Edwin Field has shown evidence 
of high regard for the Christian religion. He has always taken 
an active part in religious meetings. 

Edwin Field has ever taken a keen interest in the Hillman 
Reunions. The fifth annual meeting was held at his house. 
and the minutes state that about eighty-three persons were 
present. It was considered one of the most successful gather- 
ings of its kind, and the ocasion was representative of a high 
degree of hospitality which was always exhibited at Edwin 
Field's home. During many years he was elected President 
of the Hillman Association, and it is in no little part 
due to his efforts that the Association has been so successful 
in its annual meetings. 

Edwin Field had four children as follows; 

Clara E. Field (8), b. Hatfield, Mass., Oct. 4, 1865; d. Hatfield, 
Mass.. Nov. 1865 — Six weeks and two days. 

Till ilia E. Field (8), b. Hatfield, Mass., Oct. 25, 1866; m. Ernest A. 
Frary, Dec. 6, 18 8 8. 

Samuel H. Field (8), b. Hatfield, Mass.. May 18. 1868. 

Sarah Marlon Field (8), b. Hatfield, Mass., April 9th, IS 7 6. 

Samuel H. Field, son of Edwin W. Field, took a four years' 
course at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, 
Mass. While there, he received an appointment as First Lieu- 
tenant in Company A. and received his diaploma. Ac- 
cepted a position in Forest ville. Conn., where he stayed only a 
few months, returning home on account of his lather's ill 
health. He is still there. As in school and college, so upon 
the farm, he is always thorough, and painstaking in all he 
undertakes. The farm crops and stock bear evidence of this 
fact. At this writing (May, 1905). he is not married. 



CHAPTER VI. 



POSTERITY OP JOHN 1 1 1 I.I, M AX (5), PRESBREY HILLMAN (5), 
ARAD HILL.MAN (5), JULIA HILL.MAN PRESBREY (6), 
EUGENE PRESBREY (7), OZRO 1 1 1 I.I -M A N (6), GUSTA HILL- 
MAN PRESBREY (6) AND CHARLES TAYLOR HILLMAN (6), 



John Hillman (5), son of Lot Ilillman (4), b. [786; in. Re- 
liance Keyes. She was, b. [798; d. Conway, Mass.. May 7/11. 
1858, age 60. He d. Feb. 2nd, [858. The) had ten children. 

Phila Ilillman (6), b. March 3rd, L812; d. Aug. lih. is:;:,, age 23. 
I. yinaii llillmaii (6), b. March 13th. 1814. 
Elizabeth llillnian (6), b. Jan. L9th, i s 16. 
Calvin Keyes llillnian (6), b. May 18th, 1817. 
Nancy Keyes Ilillman (6), b. July 31st, 1820. 

Ilollis Ilillman (6), b. Feb. 28th, 1822; d. April LMh. 1895, age 7:'. 
Serepta Ilillman (6), b. Dec. 2nd, 1827. 

Hervey Ilillman (6), 1). Nov. 15th, 1829; d. Jan. 25th, L831. 
Harriet Pease Hillman (6), b. Feb. 22nd, L832; m. May nth. L862, 
Franklin Clapp. He was, b. Oct. 17th, 1820. 

Mary Keyes Ilillman (6), b. Nov. 22nd, 1834. 

Presbrey Hillman (5), son of Lot Ilillman (4), h. [788; in. 
Edith Hitchcock; d. March 25th, 1857. Colrain, Mass. 

Charles S. Hillman (6), b. Conway, Mass., March 1st. 1814; 
m. Jane Wilson. Colrain, Mass.. Nov. [3th, [839. She was, b. 

June i>t. [819, Colrain, Mass.; d. Sept. 20th. 1890. Colrain. 
Mass. 

Flora A. Hillman (7). b. Nov. 22nd. 1845. Colrain, Mass.; 
in. March 21st, [865, Greenfield, Mass., Arthur A. Smith. He 
was. b. Colrain. Mass., Dec. [9th, 1841. They had three 
ch ildren. 

Arthur l$. Smith, b. July 25th, L872, Colrain, Mass.; m. Nov. L8th, 
1897, Bermardston, Mass.. to Lottie A. Hicks. 

.Martha II. Smith, b. Feb. llth. L875, Colrain, Mass. 
Charles A. Smith, b. Feb. Llth, L875, Colrain, Mass. 

Arad Hillman (5), son of Lot 14). d. March 9th, [886, age 85 
years. Eliza ECendricks, his wife, died April 24th. 1881, age 
7| ) } ears. 

For many years, Arad llillnian attended the Ilillman Re- 
unions, lie was most highly respected, and reverenced be- 



POSTERITY OF JULIA HILLMAX PRESBREY, 53 

cause of his many years of age and experience. The minutes 
of the Reunions refer to him frequently, and particularly in 
regard to the last meetings which he was able to attend. The 
children of Arad and Eliza llillman were: Demis. Esther, 
[ohn Russell, horn Nov. 2nd, 1831, Mary, Eleanora L. 

John Russell Hillman lived at Northampton. Mass.. and was 
a respected citizen. He and his wife attended the Reunions. 
and were for many years quite regular, and were well known 
among the Hillman families of western Massachusetts. He 
married Zerviah C. — — . She died January 18th, 1900, 

age 68 years. Russell Hillman is now living at Northampton. 
Mass., and has reached the age of 73 ) A years. He was a 
soldier in the Civil War, promoted to the rank of First Lieu- 
tenant of the 52nd Regiment. Their children were: 

Hattie \i. Hillman, d. Oct. 3rd, 1865, age 10 months. 
Johnnie Hillman. d. Oct. 3rd. 1865, age 10 months. 
Albert K. Hillman. d. Aug. 16th. 1869, age 4 months. 
Harry llillman, d. Aug. 20th. 1869, age 2 years. 
Herbert Hillman, 
Frank Hillman, 
George Hillman, 

Julia Hillman (6), daughter of Justin Hillman (5), b. - 
m. L. C. Presbrey; b. - -; d. - -. There chil- 

dren were : 

Charlie Presbrey (7), b. Jan. 7th, 1860; d. July 13th. 1S64. 
Eugene Presbrey (7), b. - — ; m. - — . 

Caroline Presbrey (7), b. - — ; m. Clifton William Bates, 

Thursday, Nov. 25th, 1897, at 224 West 139th St., New York City. 

Ilaitie Presbrey, b. ; m. . 

Julia Hillman was the daughter of Justin Hillman, and wife 
of L. C. Presbrey — more commonly known as Clark Presbrey. 
They lived at Horse Mountain, near Florence, Mass. Both 
Aunt Julia and Uncle Clark attended the Hillman Reunions 
for many years, and as a matter of fact the minutes of the very 
first meeting state that they were present. They did much to 
make the llillman Reunions pleasant, as well as instructive. 
The writer finds in several of the minutes of the meetings a 
record of some impressive speech delivered by Eugene Pres 
brey, son of Uncle Clark; or some recitation by one of Mini 
Julia's daughters. Later on, they moved to New York City, 
and the distance made it less easy for them to be present at the 



54 THE III 1. 1. MAN FAMILY. 

Hillman gatherings. Their children are married, and the 
writer believes thai they all are living at the present writing 
i Ma\ . [-905). 

Eugene Presbrey has become a prominent New Yorker, and 
in 1 better account of his life work can be given than the follow 
ing article taken from The Indianapolis News, Thursday, Feb. 
23rd, [905: 

PRESBREY I III: PRODUCER OF TARKINGTON'S PLAY. 



lie Was [nventor of What is Called Atmosphere 



Ills OPINION OP TUP PLAY. 



if a Boston doctor in Hit- summer of ]nT."> had no! said t<> a young 
artist, "My boy, any man's arl is worth living I'm-, bui no ait is worth 
dying fur." there would nol be today in [ndianapolis one of the most 
many-sided men alive today. Eugene Presbrey, who is staging "The 
Gentleman from Indiana" al English's had only one ambition when 
he was a boy, hut lie dabbled in many things incidentally because he 
was a many-sided boy as ho is a many-sided man. tic knew himself 
only as a painter, his pictures were hung on tin- line, ami the besl 
■ lilies in Boston praised his work, and a few people bought his pic- 
tures, hui the buyers were so few thai he worked at nighl at other 
things because after sunsel he could not paint. He had a technilogical 
schooling; had drawn the plans, run the lathe and huilt in every detail 
a practical working steam engine; he had studied music and was a 
musician theoretically and practically. He had taken up fencing as 
an exercise and handled the foil skillfully enough to keep his master 
busy in tierce ami quarte, hut these things brought in no money, so he 
looked for night occupation and became an actor. The end of it was 
this doctor's warning. He was making money on the stage, so he for- 
sook I he palette and brush and was an aelor for live years. 

NOTED STAGE DIRECTOR. 

Had ho been contenl to remain an actor he would not he here today 

putting the final touch of polish upon a thousand facets of the new 
play toward the first production id' which all Indiana is looking. Ii 
was because the life of an actor did not suffice to till the mentality id' 
Eugene Presbrey thai he is today one of the most noted of the stage 
directors of I he world, and because he is what he is. he is here in 
charge of the first production of "The Gentleman from Indiana." 

in- is a scholar as well as stage manager; a practical mechanic as 

well as a musician; he studies "values" on the Stage because he studied 
••values" iii the art that was his fust and will always he his real mis- 
tress. He is a studenl of literature, philosophy, science and sociology, 
otherwise h. could noi have accomplished the seemingly impossible 
fc.ii el' making a play out of thai intensely dramatic hut seemingly im- 
possible 1 k "Raffles." 

This slender, dark, grizzled man. with the even voice, and calm, 
keen eyes, who gives you the impression of being a sort of human 
St'eel spring, that is to say. a man made up of nerves, hut with thosi 
nerves under perfect control, will tell you if you chance to ask him 
about his career that he found that the life id' an aelor kept his mind 



POSTERITY OF EUGENE PRESBRET. 55 

and body busy only about two hours of the day when lie was off the' 
stage. There is just about one thing that Eugene Presbrey could not 
stand then, and cannot tolerate now. and that thing is inaction, so h< 
began to study stage conditions when he was barely more than a boy 
and he found a field that would keep him busy. Studying the conditions 
in Europe he concluded that there was one position which was vacant 
in this country, the position whose occupant on the continent is called 
"regisseur." He is a highly-paid individual and his province is par- 
allel to and a complement of that of the playwright. When the writer 
has done all that is possible for a man to do with the creation of his 
brain, so far as he can work with tools that consist only of written 
words, he surrenders that work to the man who knows color and lighl 
and music and all the myriad varieties of treatment that can lie ob- 
tained with these varying but kindred mediums. 

THEORY OF PRESBREY. 

Presbrey's theory is that the author's play is the new-born child 
unclad and ailing. His vocation which he and men like him dignify 
into an art, is to take the small, naked thing and clothe it and beau- 
tify it and make it fine and fit to live. He does not believe that the 
producer breathes the soul into the dramatic baby. That lies always 
with the author, whether the play is a rag doll, or something with the 
possibilities of life, but he does believe that the author's function after 
he has written his best is merely to collaborate and consult with tho 
man who is to do the rest. 

It was in 1880 that Mr. Presbrey first left Boston to accept an 
engagement in Xew York. His early stage career had come at a lucky 
time for a student who was to make the stage his life study. Those 
years bridged the passing of the old school to the new. Presbrey 
acted with Booth and Earrett and even with Forrest in that old-time 
giant's closing days, but those same years saw a change from the 
classic to the modern play, written with a view of the personality and 
talents of certain actors to portray certain characterizations. 

The first of these plays was "The Almighty Dollar" and Mr. Pres- 
brey was with the Florences in that famous old comedy. When he 
came to Xew York it was to join a company at the Madison Square 
Theater, then under the management of the Mallorys, in the first Hush 
of their "Hazel Kirke" success. He was not with them long, because 
coincident with the coming of Gillette the house and company passed 
under the management of Daniel Frohman. After "The Professor" 
and "Esmeralda." Eugene Presbrey had proved his value as an actor, 
and Daniel Frohman condemned the young man when he announced 
his intention of "having what he wanted or quitting." but the young 
man was pretty positive that he would be a "regisseur" or nothing, and 
Mr. Frohman. with characteristic sympathy, scholarship, and far- 
sightedness, placed the young man in complete charge of the produc- 
tion of his plays. It was not long after that that A. M. Palmer took 
charge of the Madison Square, and then began a long, brilliant asso- 
ciation. The different companies that played under the direct ion of 
A. M,. Palmer and the plays produced by him between 1nn4 and 1894 
furnish one of the most brilliant chapters in the history of the Ameri- 
can stage. 

AX ATMOSPHERE PIECE. 

Palmer's day is past; he has been crowded aside by men of newer 
and busier methods and more modern ideas, but the man who brought 
into one company Maurice Barrymore, E. J. Henley, E. M. Holland. 
J. H. Stoddart, Wilton Lackaye, Maud Harrison. Julia Arthur. May 
Brooklyn Ida Conquest, Madeline Bouton and half a dozen others 
whose names are familiar today as then: the man whose productions 
ranged in those years from "Jim, the Penman," to "Alabama and 



56 THE 1 1 II. I. .MAX FAMILY. 

from "Saints and Sinners" to "Trilby" is the man whose name will 
not i>c forgotten and the man who throughout those years was his right 
arm, the man who stood alone againsl the opinion even of Palmer, and 
practically forced tin- production o£ three of these greatest success.-. 
In which neither the author nor the manager had faith at first, was 
none other than the man who avows his belief today that "The Gen- 
tleman from Indiana" is one of the strongest, finest, plays that he has 
i e taged. 
He smiles a little sardonically, when he says thai P.ooth Tarking- 
ton's <liama is an atmospheric (dec.-, for it happens that Eugene Pres- 
brey is the man who introduced this painter's term "atmosphere" into 
stage affairs. 

"Yes, that is true," he said, yesterday, "I suppose I was the first 

to talk studio slang back of the footlights so tar as that one term is 

concerned. The definition is very simple to me. yet l see it often mis- 
applied. Atmosphere to me means simply correct "values' to use 
another painter's phrase. I mean the environment that gives the effect 
of truth, but for Heaven's sake, don't think that I mean, when I say 
truth, the literal presentation of facts. The difference between truth 
ami fact is the difference between .Michael Angelo ami a kodak. I sup- 
pose you might call me an impressionist, hut I think I can convey my 
meaning to you by a concrete instance better than any other way. .Mr. 
Tarkingtbn's delightfully written manuscript was treated by me like 
even other manuscript that comes into my hands. I made a nice little 
heap Of each of the four acts and then l stepped away hack and tried 
to gel a truthful but different perspective from that possible to any 
author. 1 tried to see in my mind the right grouping and color ami 
general scheme of treatment that would best bring out the fine theme 
so finely treated by the play-wright . and my working out of that pic- 
ture was this: I saw in it a summer day starting in peace and soft, 
sweet charm; clouds come into the sky, and there is a muttering of a 
storm at hand; then there is the breaking of the storm, and after the 
fright and the darkness pass there is more sunshine in a purer air and 
truer loveliness than that shone ;tt dawn. This may seem fanciful to 
you, but if you will watch our work 1 think you will see my meaning 
made plain. I hope by some things mechanical, but by some things a 
little more than mechanical, by color schemes and music and vocal 
intonations and all the other things that pass, and should pass, unno- 
ticed, but go to make up a symmetrical, truthful and appealing 
entirety." 

SOME OF HIS WRITINGS. 

It might have seemed that the career of Eugene Presbrey was a 
full one, when the time came for his parting with Mr. Palmer, but he 
was already planning a new phase in his busy life. He had done 
everything in connection with the stage except t,, write plays, so he 
determined to he a playwright. He wrote live, that no one but him- 
self ever saw, or ever will see. but he hail determined to gain the 
aut hor's view point. 

He confesses candidly now that he does not believe an author 
should produce his own play. Among other things, he wrote "A Vir- 
ginia Courtship" for William H. Crane. "A Ward of Prance" in col- 
laboration with Franklin Files, and his greatest success, "Raffles," but 
he says he wishes always for some good producer to take charge of 
tin- manucripl because life is not long enough for a man to do both 
things himself as well as he could wish. He compliments the clever- 
ness of playwrights like Augustus Thomas, Clyde Fitch and William 
Gillette, but he persists in his belief that even these men who seem- 
ingly contradict his theory, would do themselves more credit in con- 
fining Unit energies to one of the two branches. 

Nowadays. Mr. Presbrey is sufficiently blessed with this world's 
goods to be able to write when he pleases and to confine his attention 




OZKO HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF OZRO HILLMAX. 57 

as producer to such plays as appeal most strongly to him. Staging 
"The Gentleman from Indiana" he says candidly, is a labor of love to 
him because he believes so thoroughly in the merit of the play and its 
possibilities, but none the less he is in a hurry to see the first week in 
Indianapolis over and done with. He has his passage already booked 
for the trip he has planned as long ago as last September, and has 
delayed only for the sake of this new play. He will leave Indianapolis 
for New York and sail for Italy and there for three months, he will 
revel in the sport that occupies all of his holidays. During all the 
months of every year when he is at work he never touches brush or 
paint tube, but the moment he is free he tucks sketch book, palette, 
paint box and easel under his arm. and, as he expresses it, starts out 
for an unceasing debauch that ends only with each day's sundown 
until his loafing time is over. In most years he plays painter at his 
bungalow on the Maine coast, but this year he goes back to his best 
loved spot, and in Venice he will paint and paint away until the time 
comes for him to keep his June engagement in London to arrange for 
the translation of "Raffles" into French for the next Paris season. 

Ozro Hillman (6), son of Justin Hillman (5), b. Conway, 
Mass., Dee. 23rd, 1819. His first wife was Fanny \V. Lyman. 
(1. at Northampton, Mass., April 7th, 1852, age 31. He was 
married secondly to Cathrine R. White, at Providence, R. I., 
Jan. 19th, 1871. She was, 1). - -; d. Providence, R. L, 

Dec. 1 2th, 1875. He was married the third time to Caroline 
Adams, Hadley, Mass. He was married for the fourth time. 
(Do not know name of last wife). He d. at Marlboro, Mass., 
June 25th, 1885, age 65 or 66. He had two sons: 

Frank \V. Hillinan (7), b. - — — ; d. Sept. 2nd, 1S7G. 

Howard Leslie Hillman (7), b. Marlboro, Mass., Jan. 1st, 1875. 

Gusta M. Hillman (6), daughter of Justin Hillman (5), 1). 
Williamsburg, Mass.. Sept. 29th, 1841 ; m. Williamsburg, 
Mass., April 9th, 1863, to Daniel Sumner Presbrey. He was. 
1). Willington, Conn., July 29th, 1839. They had four children. 

Orson H. Presbrey (7), b. Willington, Conn., April 4th. 1S66. 
Fred W. Presbrey, b. Stafford, Conn., Feb. 21st, 1868; d. Mans- 
field, Conn., April 3 0th, 1868, age 10 weeks. 

Nellie A. Presbrey, b. Mansfield, Conn., Jan. 4th, 1870. 
Myrtle L. Presbrey, b. Rockville, Conn., Nov. 20th, 1878. 

Charles Taylor Hillman (6), son of Justin Hillman (5), b. 
; m. Percis Lyman Clark, Jan. 10th, 18 — , North- 
ampton, Mass. He died Aug. 27th, [864 at Northampton, 
Mass. They had four children. 

Sarah Wilder Hillman (7), b. Jan. 9th, 1857, Northampton, Mass 

m. Thomas Spencer Crafts, Northampton, Mass., Sept. 6th, 1SS2. Tin > 
had three children: Lewis Clark Crafts, b. Nov. 19th, L884; Mary 
Percis Crafts, b. Sept. 18th, 1886; James Taylor Crafts, b. Nov. L8th, 
1889. 



58 THE I! I I.L.MAX FAMILY. 

Helen tugusta Hillman (7), i>. Feb. 24th, L859; m. — . 

Charles Lyman Hillman (7), i>. . 

Harriet Louisa Hillman (7), b. May 24th, 1862. 

• Mi May 28th, 1905, Mrs. Crafts wrote me as follows in re- 
gard to Charles Taylor Hillman: 

"When quite a young man. he came to Northampton, and worked 
for Mr. Stebbins Lathrop. While there, he mel mother, who was 
Percis L 1 lark, daughter of Luther and Wealthy Wilder Clark, and 
came on from Newburgh, x. v.. where he worked after leaving North- 
ampton, and married her May 6th, lv",::. They lived a year al New- 
burgh, ami then went to Sunderland, Mass.. where he carried on a 
farm. After living there a year or two. he secured a position as head 
farmer tor Mr. Ashel Lyman of South Farm, a portion of Northampton, 
where he remained until his .hath, which occurred August 2 7 1 1 1 . 1864, 

■ '■>'. years, three months, lie was a member of tin- First Church 
of Northampton, ami also sang in tin- choir for a number of years." 

Helen Hillman was Secretary of the Hillman Association for 
several years. She lias taken a most active interest in the as- 
sociation, attending its meetings regularly. The author re- 
members her particularly as being enthusiastic in regard in the 
Hillman Association, and as being a worker in its interests. 
Sin- was married 1 I think), in [904, in a gentleman who resides 
near \i irthampti hi. 

Harriet Hillman, sister of Helen, also took a great deal of 
interesl in the meetings of the Hillman Association, attending 
them frequently. Some years ago when the writer lived in 
Northampton, she was attending Smith College as a student. 




CHARLES TAYLOR HILLMAN 



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CHAPTER VII. 



POSTERITY OF JOHN HILLMAX (1), INCLUDING JONATHAN (2). 
SAMUEL (3), MOSES (4), MOSES (5), FAXXY MILNER HILL- 
MAN LITCH (6). ALSO WILLIAM HILLMAN (5), TO WILLIAM 
HILLMAX. JR. (8). 



Jonathan Hillman (2), son of John (i), b. — ;m. 

Bethia Lovell at Chilmark, Mass., Feb. 51I1, 1722, or 3. They 
were taken into church, also baptized with their children (no 
names given of children) April 29th, 1744. Their first child 
(no name given) died suddenly Aug. 21st, 1725. They had 
six children. 

David Hillman (3). Had no sons live to maturity. 

Jonathan Hillman (3). Had no sons live to maturity. 

Samuel Hillman (3), b. Chilmark, Martha's AHneyard, Feb., 1732; 
m. Phebe Cathcart, Sept. 12th, 1751. She was, b. May 4th, 1729; d. 
July 20th, 1829, age 100 years. 2 months, 16 days. He d. Chilmark, 
Martha's Vineyard, June 27th. 1801. 

Ezra Hillman (3). fourth son of Jonathan (2). b. - - ; 111. 

Zerviah; d. . Children were as follows: Shadrach Hill- 
man (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Nov. 8th, 1767; m. March 
20th, 1794, Prudence Butler. Daniel Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Mar- 
tha's A T ineyard, May 23rd, 1772. Asahel Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, 
Martha's Vineyard, July 2Sth, 1776. Jane Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, 
Martha's Vineyard, Feb. 11th 1779. Jonathan Hillman (4), b. Chil- 
mark, Martha's Vineyard, June St' 1784; d. July 15th, 1861. Zebulon 
Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Marth ; Vineyard, April 4th, 1786. Mar- 
tha Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, April 16th, L789. 
Benjamin Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, April 2nd, 
1793; d. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, July 20th, 1853, age 59 years, 
3 months. 

Mollie Hillman (3), b — — ; m. Hammett; d. - — . 

Judith Hillman (3). b. - — ; m. Claghim; d. - — . 

Moses Hillman (4), son of .Samuel (3) and Phebe Cathcart, b. 
Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Sept. 4th, 1771 ; m. Chil- 
mark, Martha's Vineyard, Sept. nth, 1794 to Lydia Chase. 
She was, b. Chilmark. probably Feb. 4th, 1772; d. Ljvermore, 
Me., July 25th, 1819 in her 48th year. They moved from Chil- 
mark to Livermore, Me., about 1817. He d. Livermore, Me., 
Dec. 17th, 1823. They had ten children. 

Tristani Hillman (5), first son of Moses Hillman; b. Chilmark. 
Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 14th. 1795; m. Abigail Stewart. She was, !>. 
Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, March 2nd. 1796; d. Dearing, Me.. April 
10th, 18S8. He d. Livermore, Me., June 25th, 1875. 



till THE Mil. I.MAN FAMILY. 

Jireli Hillman (5) b. Chllmark, April 7th. L797; m. Nancy- — . 

She d. July 18th, L864, age 67 years, 9 months. He d. Chilmark, Feb. 
Tih. 1853, age 55 years, 10 months, 5 days. He was a Mariner. 

Pradence liillinan (5), i>. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 
22nd, 1798; d. Portland, Me., about L776. She was never married. 
(Chilmark records give b. Jan. 22nd, 1799, bul E. M. Litch thinks the 
date is Incorrect, i 

Fanny Hillman < 5 I . b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Jan. 5th, 
1801; ni. u<\. Reuben Milner, March 26th, is:;.-,. Livermore, Me. she 
was his second wife. He was b. Molton, Yorkshire, England, April 
llili. 1780; d. April 3rd, 1859, probably in Norway. Me. she d. Nor- 
way, Me., after 1872. He had no children by his first wife, whom he 
married In Nova Scotia, l y his second wife, Fanny Hillman. they had 
one son. Charles Grosvcner Milner. b. Norway, Me., Jan. 19th, 1839. 
He was living in 1900. m. Marguerite Stillman. she d. Wakefield. 
Mass., aboul 1875. Their children were: Lena Milner. b. Wakefield, 
Mass.; d. Wakefield, Mass.. after L876. Effie Milner. b. Wakefield, 
Mass. Living in Norway. Me.. L901. m. Charles Aqus. 

Charlotte M.liui- (5), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Jan. Tih. 
1803; m. Lewis Chase. Lived Easl Livermore, Me.; d. Livermore, Me., 
Dec. 26th, 1835. 

Lydia Milner (5), h. Chilmark. Martha's Vineyard. Dec. 3rd, 1804; 
m. Alex. Bemis of Livermore, Me., 1829; d. La Orange, Me., April. 
1894. Their children were: Betsey Hillman Bemis, b. Livermore, 
Me., June, L830; d. Foxcroft, Me., 1897. Jacob Bemis (Twin Brother 
id' Moses i. I). Livermore, Me., Aug. 7th. 1832; m. Nancy E. Kenny. La 
Grange, Me., Sept.. 1862; they had ten children. .Moses Bemis (Twin 
Brother of Jacob), b. Livermore, Me., April 17th. 1832; m. Curtis; d. 
Li i Cratitfe, Me.. Jan. 25th, 1891; they had no children; he was her 
second husband; her firs! husband was Witham. Charles Dunn 
Bemis, b. La Grange, Me., Oct. 23rd, 1S47: m. Oaks, who was separated 
from lirst husband, whose name was Ames: have one child, Lydia 
Hazel P.eiiKs. h. Foxcroft, Me., about 1892, where the family were 
living in l 90 l . 

Betsey Chase Hillman (5), b. Chilmark. Martha's Vineyard, April 
5th, 1806; d. Livermore, Me., June 8th, 1825. 

Samuel Chase Hillman (5), b. chilmark. Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 
6th, L808. This name does not appear on the Chilmark family records, 
bui is in the Bible. 

Moses Hdllman (5), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Oct. 18th, 
1810; in. Hannah Warren Safford. She was. b. Minot. Me., L813; d. 
Norway. Me., June 30th, 1858. Daughter of Daniel Safford and Betsey 

Warren. This name does not appear on the Chilmark Town Records, 
bul is in tin- family Bible records ami was personally known to 

(E. M. Litch), who married his daughter. (This is the written 

statement of E. M. latch of Brooklyn, N. Yi. He d. Wakefield. Mass.. 
July 26th, 1872. 

Thomas Mayhem liillinan (5), b. Livermore, Me., March L6th, 
1814; d. Livermore, Me.. Nov. 23rd, 1825. 

Moses Hillman (5), son of Muses 141. They had three 
children. 

Edwin Forest Hillman (6), b. Livermore, Me., is.'.s; m. 
They had one son. d. Boston, Mass.. L872 or '.'.. 

Fanny Milner Hillman (Hi. daughter of Moses Hillman < ." > ; b. 
Livermore, Me.. July, 1846; m. Jan. 23rd, 1 si:: at Fitchburg Mass.. 
Edward Henry Litch. He was b. June 22ml. L849 at Fitchburg, Mass. 




\VM. 1III. 1. MAX 



POSTERITY OF WILLIAM HILLMAN. 61 

Son "l" Aaron Kimball and Abigail Newton Litch. Children were: 
Alice Gertrude Litch (7), b. Newtonville, Mass., May 17th, 1X71. Wil- 
liam Kimball Litch (7), b. South Orange, N. J.. June 20th. 1879. 

William Hillman (5), son of William Hillman (4). b. New 
York City Nov. 21st, 1 J<;4 : m. Catherine Thurston, Jan 21st, 
1816. She was. b. Aug. 8th, 1792. They had ten children ; d. 
New York City April 14th. 1874. 

The Baptist Encyclopedia, by Cathcart, gives the following 

in reference to William Hillman. 

"He was born in the City of New York, Nov. 21st, 1794, and 'lie, I 
April 14th, 1864. In his 19th year, he was converted, and baptized 
into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church, by the Pastor, Rev. 
William Parkinson. For more than fifty years, he was a member of 
that church. While a young man, he was elected one of its deacons, 
and its honored pastors. William Parkinson, Spencer H. Cone, A. King- 
man Nott and Thomas D. Anderson, found him a safe adviser, an 
efficient helper, and a liberal supporter of the church, and of the 
great evangelizing enterprises of the Baptist denomination. With Dr. 
Cone, he entered heartily into the work of the American Bible Union. 
He was one of the eighteen men who, on a stormy day, met in Deacon 
William Colgate's parlor, and took preliminary measures for its organi- 
zation. He paid the first $100 into its treasury to make his pastor a 
life director. He possessed a strong faith in God; was a man of ardent 
piety; and left this world by a death remarkable for its peaceful, joy- 
ful, triumphant demonstration of Christian victory." 

William Hillman had ten children as follows: 

William Whiteker Hillman (6). b. New York City, Dec. 19th, L816; 
d. New York City, July 9th, 1835. 

Edward James Hillman (6), son of William (5), b. New York City, 
Dec. 21st, 1818; m. New- York City, April 2nd, 1841 Abigail Jeannette 
McHarg; d. New York City, June 24th, 1883. 

Anne Ordelia Hillman (6). b. New York City, Dec. 7th, 1820; m. 
New York City, May 6th, 1845, Henry Van Arsdale, M. D.; d. New 
York City, Dec. 8th, 1869. 

Samuel Thurston Hillman (6). b. Sept. 27th. 1822; m. Jan. 6th, 
1N49, Lockport, N. Y., Annis F. Sers; d. De Land, Fla„ April 30th. L895. 

Catherine J. Hillman (6), b. Aug. 3rd, 1824; d. New York City. 
Sept. 2nd, 1852^. 

Martha Hillman (6). b. Aug. 2nd, 1826. 

Marguerite Amelia Hillman (6), b. March 6th. 1828, New Fork 
City; m. Nov. 3rd. 18*52, New York City, Allied Norton Wearing; d. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1S80. 

Cornelius Seguine Hillman (6), b. March 20th, 1830, New York 
lily; d. Jan. 16th, 1835, New York City. 

George Washington Hillman (6), b. April 9th. 1832, New York 
City; m. June 13th, 1855, New- York City, Mary Augusta Bull; d. New 
York City, Aug. 21st, 1896. 

John Suyden Hillman (6), b. May 2nd. 1834, X<\\ York City; m. 
April 7th, 1857, New York City, Maria Louise Durbrow. 

George Washington Hillman (6), b. April 9th, [832, New 
York City; m. Mary Augusta Bull, Xew York City, June [3th, 



62 THE IIII. I. MAN FAMILY 

[855. She was, b. Feb. 28th, [832, New York City; <1. Aug. 
21st, [896, New York City. They had ten children. 

Rachel Ann llillman 1T1. b. Aug. 1st. 1856; d. Dec. 13th, L859. 
Mary Augusta llillman (7). b. Nov. 1st. 1857. 
James Bull Hillinan (7), b. June 8th, L859; d. Aug. 29th, 1859. 
George Washington Hillman, Jr., (7), i>. Auk. 31st, I860; d. April 
r.'th. 1861. 

William llillman (7), b. Aug. 9th, L861. 

George Washington llillman. Jr. (7), b. Sept. 21st, is62. 

Charles Guion llillman (7), b. Nov. 8th, 1st;:;; d. July 8th, 1878. 

Henry Van Ardsale llillman (7), b. April 6th, L866. 

Prank Herbert llillman. (7), b. Nov. 27th. 1867. 

Spencer Cone Hillman (7), b. Sept. 8th, 1869; d. July 21st, 1870. 

William Hillman 17). son of Geo. Washington llillman. 1>. 
New York City, Aug. 9th, [86] : m. Emma Louise Bill, Mont 
Vernon, X. Y.. Aug. 21st, [884. She was. b. New York City, 

Nov. 24th. 1859. They had three children, in [898. 

At the present writing (May. 1905), William Hillman is the 
Manager of the Revere Rubber Company, with headquarters 
at New York City. His residence is at Mt. Vernon, a suburb 
of New York. The writer has visited him at his office in New 
York City, various times, and always found him very much in- 
terested in the Hillman family; particularly desirous of know- 
ing from what branch of the Hillmans his family is descended. 
The records prior to \y^)2, relating to his grandfather, are 
obscure. Until recently, the writer believed that his ancestors 
were Peleg (4), Timothy (3), Richard (2). and John 11). from 
Martha's Vineyard; but Mr. K. II. I, itch of New York City. 
has recently secured data which would seem somewhat to dis- 
prove the above theory. The writer prefers, therefore, to sim- 
ply include the information which he already possesses, in 
regard to William Hillmans family, which will at least be pre- 
served as a permanent record, and it is probable that some 
other investigator may find data at some future time, that will 
cdear up the sitnat i< in. 

William llillman had three children, as follows: 

Alice Mary llillman (8), daughter ol William llillman (7); b. 

July 10th, 1885, Monl Vernon, X. v.; m. — . 

Lemuel Sewell llillman (8), b. Aug. 28th, L886; m. — . 

William llillman. Jr. (8), b. Sept. 14th, 1892; m. - 



Geo. Washington Hillman (7), son of Geo. Washington II ill - 
man (6); brother vi Wm. llillman. Manager of the Revere 



POSTERITY OF SAMUEL HILLMAN. 65 

Jonathan Hillman (3), had no sons live to maturity. He was 
private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, service from Jan. L8th to 

Sept. 1st, 1776, at Martha's Vineyard Sea Coast Defensr. 

Samuel milman (3), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Feb., 1732; 

m. Phoebe Cathcart Sept. 12th, 1751. She was, b. May 4th, 1729; d. 
July 29th, 1829, age 100 years. 2 months, 16 days. He d. Chilmark, 
Martha's Vineyard, Jan. 27th, 1801. 

Ezra Hillman (3), m. Zeriah — . 

Molly Hillman (3), m. - - Hammett. 

Judith Hillman (3), m. Claghim. 

Samuel Hillman (3), son of Jonathan (2) and John (1), b. 

Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Feb., 1732; m. Phoebe Carthart, 

Sept. 12th, 1751, b. May 14th. 1729; d. July 20th, 1829, age 100 

years, 2 months, 16 days. He d. Chilmark, Jan. 27th, 1801. 

Tristam Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard July 16th, 
1752; d. June 15th, 1788. 

This record of birth and death is from the family Bible in 
the possession of Jacob Bemiss, La Grange, Me. It is a mat- 
ter of record that Tristam Hillman was drowned. In another 
Bible in possession of Mrs. Emma DeBora Benson, Minne- 
apolis, Minn., this date of death is placed July 15th. instead of 
June 15th, 1788, and does not mention that he was drowned. 

The record of Moses Hillman says he settled in New Bruns- 
wick. (The foregoing statement is from E. M. Litch, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.) 

Jonathan Hillman (4), b. chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. Aug. 17th, 
1754; d. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Feb. 26th, 1756. (Taken from 
Bible record mentioned above.) 

Jonathan Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. Sept. 6th, 
1757; m. Sarah Hammett, Nov. 16th, 1780; d. Dec. 4th, 1782. (This 
date taken from the Bemiss Bible. Record of Moses Hillman states 
he died at sea, Nov. 16th, 1780.) 

Bemiss and Benson Bibles both agree as to date of birth. 
Neither Bible mentions date of death. Moses llilbnan's 
record says died at sea and left daughter. 

Gersliam Hillman (4), b. Chilmark. April 3rd, L760. He was 
private in Nathan Smith's Company, service from June Isi to Sept. 
1st, 1776. Also same company Sept. 1st, to Nov. -1st, 1776, Martha's 
Vineyard, Sea Coast Defense. 

Jireh Hillman (4), b. Chilmark. Sept. 20th, 1762; d. Sept. 24th, or 
Oct. 24th, 1783, of apoplexy. He was never married. 

Bemiss and Benson Bibles disagree as to dates of death, as 

to the month. Chilmark records give date of birth Oct. 30th. 

1762. 

Jane Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, June 7th, 1765; m. - 
Boardman; d, Aug, 19th, 1806. 



66 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

E. M. Litch says: — "Think this w;is Sylvanus Boardman 
of the four partners who wenl to Livermore, Me." 

Parnel Hillman (4), b. Chilmark i July 29th, 1767. 

S;i -I Hillman ili. b. Chilmark, Sept. 3rd, 1769; m. Jane Nor- 
ton, Turner, Me., Nov. 28th, L793. She was b. Chilmark, May 13th, 
1771. d. Monmouth, Me., Sept. 13th, 1837. He d. Monmouth, Me., Jan. 
6th, 1849. 

Samuel Hillman (4), moved from Chilmark. Marthas Vine- 
yard tn Livermore, Me., in 1788, with James and Ransom Nor- 
ton and Sylvanus Boardman, styling themselves— "Four 
partners to share alike, profit, or loss." 

Jane Norton, to win mi he was married, was a sister of Ran- 
som Norton. 1 believe that Jane, sister of Samuel Hillman, 
married Sylvanus Boardman. 

Samuel Hillman was b. Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 
[769. (See pages 2. 4, 5, 6, 7. history of Monmouth, Me.) 
When [9 years old, he moved to Livermore, Me., where he 
was converted four years later. His conversion was not the 
result of excitement. All alone in the woods, two miles from 
any human observer, in the midst of a violent thunder storm, 
he sought, and found peace with God. < >ne year later. Jesse 
I. re came through the wilderness, bringing the truths of the 
gospel, and the tenets of Methodism. Mr. Hillman heard him 
preach, recognized the similarity of their experience, and faith, 
and accepted Methodism as his creed, lie was married to 
Miss Jane Norton, and removed to Monmouth, joined the 
Methodist Church, and soon received a license to preach, says 
Dr. Allen, in his history of Methodism. Mr. Hillman's name 
does not appear in the tax records until [809, and it is not 
probable that he made this his permanent home before that 
time, or that he removed to this place before receiving a license 
to preach. 

\\ hile the exact date of his selecting Monmouth as his home 
may be of small moment, except to the student of history, to 
whom even trivial events are fraught with intense interest, the 
fad oi his becoming a citizen of this town is a matter n\ great 
value, giving to Monmouth as it did, in his posterity, her idol 
son, and eminent representative. 

In [802, as has already keen stated. Mr. Hillman was re- 
ceived into the session of ike New England Conference, which 
convened at Capt. Prescott's, ordained Traveling Deacon by 



POSTERITY OF REV. SAMUEL HILLMAN. 67 

Bishop Whatcoat, and appointed Auxiliary to Rev. Joseph 
Snelling on the Readfield circuit. Subsequently he was or- 
dained Traveling Elder, by Bishop Asbury. His later appoint- 
ments were Hallowell, Bristol, Union, Falmouth and Scar- 
boro. 

In [809, or earlier, he purchased a farm in Monmouth, but 
continued in active service, having Eor his field of labor the 
same year, Poland; and for the two following years. Liver- 
more and Hallowell. His motive for making Monmouth his 
home during these years of itinerancy evidently was to secure 
for his children, the advantages afforded by the Academy 
which was then an institution of more than local fame. 

In 181 1, the year of his appointment to the Hallowell cir- 
cuit, his name disappears from the Monmouth records, and it 
is probable he removed his family to Hallowell, Where there 
was another Academy. After two years of service in the Hal- 
lowell circuit, he was appointed at Pittston, and in 1814 was 
returned to the Readfield circuit. The following year he was 
appointed to the Livermore circuit, and in 1816, he located in 
Monmouth on the farm, now known as the "Kingsbury" place. 
near the brow of Norris Hill, where he remained until his de- 
cease in 1849. 

Mr. Hillman was a man of marked ability, strong, sell- 
reliant, original, and of great depth of character. He was 
highly esteemed by his townsmen, and was in great demand 
as a preacher ; a sermon by Father Hillman being considered 
as an intellectual feast. It was stated that he preached in this, 
and other towns, after locating, not far from 200 funeral ser- 
mons. His intellectual strength was supplemented by a grand 
physique, and a commanding presence which augmented in 
no small degree, his popularity. He was formed much like his 
grandson. Rev. J. R. Day; his height 6 feet 7 inches being 
greater but holding the same well moulded proportions. His 
sermons were able productions; logically arranged, and in- 
spiring; and were delivered with absolute freedom from sensa 
tionalism. or oratorical artifice : in fact utter disregard of con- 
ventionalities was the one thing which prevented his rising to 
the level of a pulpit orator. When he became thoroughly 
enthusiastic in his discourse, nearly every phrase was punctu- 
ated by drawing in his breath with a suck as if to bring into 



68 THE HIL.LMAN FAMILY. 

place an erratic false tooth; and every point requiring addi- 
tional force, was emphasized by rising on tiptoe — an attitude, 
which, considering his natural height, attracted as much 
attention to the preacher as to the point he desired to bring 
out He \\a^ strong in his decisions, and bold in his manner 
of speech. This boldness was not confined to his pulpit utter- 
ances. Whatever he said in public, or private, came straight- 
cut and square-edged. This trait was not due to a brisk dis- 
position, as some might be led to suppose, but was a result oi 
his unequivi »cal honest) . 

Mis cogency in argumenl was transmitted in a marked 
degree to his descendents. On one occasion at least, 
he was floored by one of his children. His son, Samuel, yield- 
in- to a boyish impulse, had thrown a thistle against the bare 
ankles of a young spinster, who was working at her wheel. 
She complained of the disrespectful act to the lad's father, who 
immediately instituted a court of inquiry. The hoy was found 
guilty, and ordered to apologize. He attempted to avoid the 
humiliating obligation, by claiming that he did not know what 
to sav. The father gfave him a form of words which he re- 
peated in a very indifferent, and unsatisfactory manner. 
"Samuel." said the punctilious judge, "1 am afraid that this is 
not a very sincere confession." "It is one of your own make 
sir." was the startling, and irresistible reply. 

Mr. llillman, says Allen's History of Methodism, was ;i 
decided republican. While preaching on the Hallowed cir- 
cuit in [811-1812, the people were divided in politics. The 
embargo and declaration of war with Great Britain, were sub- 
jects of hitter controversy. It was not for a preacher of such 
decided opinions as Mr. llillman. to be silent on the existing 
questions of the times. Some of his hearers were Federalists, 
and were not a little offended that their preacher should 
meddle with politics. His congregations were considerably 
thinned by his strong utterances. The Congregational min- 
ister at Augusta being invited to preach before a company oi 
soldiers quartered at that place, had given great offence by 
preaching from the following words of scripture. "This year 
shalt thou die because thou hast rc-belled against the Lord. 
The indignant soldiers sent for the Methodist preacher, Mr. 
llillman. who cheered on the band of soldiers by a spirited 




SAMUEL 11ILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF MOSES HtLLMAX. 69 

discourse from the words, "Go in this thy might, and thou 
shalt save Israel from the hands of the Midianites. Have I 
not sent thee?" 

Mr. Hillman was strongly attached to the scriptures, and 
the THble was his constant companion. When he was well 
advanced in life, he received a fall which fractured a limb. 
Thus disabled, he improved his time by studying the Bible, 
and finished reading it eighty-eight times. 

Moses Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 

4th, 1771 ; m. at Chilmark, Sept. nth, 1794, Lydia Chase. She 
was, b. Chilmark, probably Nov. 4th, 1772; d. Livermore, Me., 
July 25th, 1819 in her 48th year. They moved from Chilmark 
to Livermore, Me., about 1817. He d. Livermore, Me., Dec. 
17th, 1823, age 52 years, 3 months, 13 days. 

Tristan Hillman (4). son of Samuel 1 lillman (3), and Phoebe 
Cathcart. Wife was Abigail Stewart. Children were : 

Lydia Hillnian (5), b. Livermore, Me.. Sept. 14th. 1809; in. John 
Randall, Portland, Me.; d. Portland, Me., Oct. 28th, 1863. 

John S. Hillman (5), b. Livermore, Me., July 23rd, 1828; d. Liver- 
more, Me., Feb. 27th, 1854. Was unmarried. 

Clarinda Hillman (5), b. Livermore, Me., Sept. 25th, 1830; in. 
Fred Bowles of Livermore, Me.; no children; d. Livermore, Me., Aug. 
9th, 1881. 

Children of Rev. Samuel Hillman (4) and Jane Norton: 

Jane Hillman (5), b. Livermore, Me., Feb. 12th, 1796; m. Mon- 
mouth, Me., Samuel Blossom, of Monmouth. Me., June 20th. 1S2H; d. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 6th, 1877. Children were: Samuel H. Blossom 
and Albert H. Blossom. 

Cyrus Stebbins Hillman (5). b. Livermore. Me., July 5th, 1 7 : 1 n ; m. 
Dec. 26th, 1822, in Monmouth, Me., to Mary McBoynton of Monmouth, 
Me. She was b. Aug. 19th, 1798; d. Brooklyn, Minn., May 3rd, 1ST I. 
He d. Brooklyn, Minn., April 27th, 1879. 

Samuel Hillman (5), b. Livermore, Me., Oct. 22nd, 1801; m. Helen 
Hart, May 22nd, 1844. She was b. Louisville. Ky„ July I Ih, IN 12. He 
d. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 22nd, 1882. Samuel [nsco Hillnian (6), b. 
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 20th, 1848. 

Abner Plummer Itilhnaii (5), b. Lincolnville, Me.. July L9th, L806; 
m. June 13th, 1832, Alfrida Abbee of Wiseasset. Me. He was a Metho- 
dist minister; d. Concord, Mass., Nov. 20th, 1NN2. 

He was the son of Rev. Samuel Hillman, for many years a 
member of the New England Conference. Was converted 
into the ministry by Rev. Moses O'Donnell, at Wiseasset, in 
1829. In 1830, after earnest prayer, and strung convictions, 



70 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

he gave himself up to the work of tin- ministry. He received 
a license to preach, a recommendation to the Conference, and 
was-admitted on trial in the .Maine Conference the same year. 
He continued in effective itinerant service until [856, when 
failing health compelled him to retire-. 

His home was for some time al Cape Elizabeth. For several 
years, he served as Chaplain at the State Reform School. 
During the last two years of his life, his home was in Concord, 
Mass., where he died Nov. [9th, [882, in the 77th year of his 
age, and the 52nd year of his ministry. 

Mr. llilhnan was tall in person, and gentlemanly in man- 
ners; of superior culture, discriminating mind, keen sensibili- 
ties, of kindly affections, and was an able preacher, and a 
prominent minister of the Maine Conference. 

I lis widow. Mi>. Alfrida Iv. llilhnan. did not long survive 
her husband. She died in Wiscasset, her native town. Sept. 
ph, [884, a worth) woman, and an active Christian worker. 

Mary Plummer Hillman Co, b. Monmouth, Me., Aug. 30th, 1811; 
in. Thomas Day of Monmouth, Me., Aug. 30th, 1838, at Monmouth, 
Me.; d. Monmouth, Me., Oct. L8th, L889. Their children were: Al- 
frida Day (6), and James R. Day (6), b. Whittenfield, Me.. Oct. 17th, 
1845; m. July l lib, l s 7 :: . Anna Richards of Auburn, Me., daughter of 
Rev. R. R. Richards. He is a minister, ami in 1905, is Chancellor of 
the Syracuse University. They have Mis< Mary Emogene <7>; John 
llilhnan Day (7), living al Berkley, Cal., in 1901; Mary Ellen Day (7), 
in. George Gillman. living Monmouth, Me., 1901. 

James l\. Day, was the son of Thomas Day. and Mary Plum- 
mer llilhnan. Was horn in Whittenfield, Ale. In his teens, 
he spent four or five years in the Indian Territory, engaging 
in the usual enterprises of a young man at that age. Return- 
ing to Maine, and in his 20th year, went to Wesleyan Semin- 
ary, where he spent several years, and graduated from the 
Classical, or Scientific Course. The remainder of his educa- 
tion was obtained a1 the Bowdoin College. He was pastor of 
the Methodist Kpiscopal Churches of Bath and Portland, Me.; 
Boston, Mass., and New York. Mas been Chancellor of the 
Syracuse Universit) for eleven years, having been re-elected 
Nov. 17th. [903; beginning the service April 26th, [894. lie 
was elect ed Bishop ol the Methodisl Episcopal Church in [Q04, 
and resigned. 



POSTERITY OF CYRUS S. HILLMAN. 71 

James R. Day writes me (May, 1905), that Nordica, the 
famous singer, was descended on her father's side from Rev. 
Samuel Hillman of Livermore, Me., who was his grandfather. 

Cyrus Stebbins Hillman (5), sou of Rev. Samuel II ill man 
(4). Wife, Alary McBoynton. Children were: 

George Dana Hillman (6), b. Livermore, Me., Nov. 25th, 1825; m. 
Mehitable Jane Hutchinson. She was b. Litchfield. Me., Feb. 11th. 
1823; d. Gardiner, Me., July 24th, 1-894. He d. Portland, Me., April 

16th, 1884. 

Debora Emma Hillman (6), b. Feb. 7th, 1831. Living St. Paul. 
Minn., Aug. 1901; m. Asiba Hunt Benson, June 8th, 1851. He was b. 
St. Albans, Me., June 29th, 1827; d. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 4th, 1896. 
Their children were: Cyrus Hillman Benson (7), b. Brooklyn, Minn., 
July 5th, 1856. Living St. Paul, Minn., Aug., 1901; m. Annie Idella 
Bohanan May 20th, 1885. She was b. Minneapolis. Minn.. Jan. 15th. 
1862. Their children were: Hattie May Benson (8), b. Brooklyn. 
Minn.. June 11th, 1886; Eva Myra Benson (8), b. Brooklyn, .Minn.. 
Aug. 8th, 1888. Died there Aug. 13th, 1890: Herbert Willis Benson 
(8), b. Brooklyn, Minn., Aug. 21st, 1890. Junie Emma Benson (7). b\ 
(8), b. Brooklyn. Minn., Aug. 21st. 1890. Junie Emma Benson (7). b. 
Brooklyn. Minn., May 16th, 1864: m. Walter Willis Boyden May 14th, 
1885. He was b. Pembroke, Mass.. April 16th. 1860; d. Minneapolis, 
Minn., June 18th, 1896. 

Children of Timothy Hillman (3) : 

George Hillman (4), Private, Capt. Nathan Smith's Co., .Ian. 18th, 
to Nov. 21st, 1776, M. V. Sea Coast Defense. Pilot on Ship "Oliver 
Cromwell," June 1st to Sept. 22nd, 1777, from Connecticut. Capt. 
Parker, Commander. 

Peleg Hillman (4). 

According to records left by Moses Hillman. he was 
married but had no children. In N. E. Hist. Genealogi- 
cal Register, Vol. 13, page 371, find that Mehitable, the 
widow of Capt. Peleg Lewis Hillman died at Boston, July 
29th. 1859. She was daughter of William Hag-gar and born 
at Newport, R. I.. April 26th, 1764. In Boston records Vol. 22, 
page 130, find that Mehitable Hillman and sons William and 
George, owned house and barn on Prince St., on Copps Hill 
in Oct. [798, valued at $1,000. and they lived there. The 
names of the sons William (probably for Wm. Haggar) and 
George (probably for brother of Peleg) suggest very strongly 
that this is the proper place for the marriage notwithstanding 
that Moses Hillman's record says "110 children," and that 
Mehitable was the widow of Peleg Lewis Hillman for ii was 
not uncommon for a person to attach to themselves a middle 
name later in life, neither is it uncommon for a record to omit 
one. 



7L ; THE II 1 1, L.MAX FAMILY. 

nt. Mehitable Haggai daughter of Wm. Haggar; it. Newport it. 
I.. April 26th, IT'. I. d. Boston, .M;i^s., July 29th, 1859. 

Private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Co., Jan. i8th to Sept. ist, 
i — — < i. M. V. Sea Coast Defense. Also Quartermaster on Ship 
•( Hiver Cromwell" from Jmu- [st to I >ct. 141I1. 1777 from Con- 
necticut. Capt. Parker, Commander. 

Elijah llillmaii (5), s t' George Hillman (4), m. Aug. 17th, 

178s to Charlotte Coffin; d. Aug. 18th, L851. He d. Dec. 13th, 1840. 
They had eighl children. 



CHAPTER IX. 



POSTERITY OF BENJAMIN (3), ROBERT (4), URIAL (5), GIL- 
BERT R. (6), SOPHRONIA HILLMAN (7), AND EDMONI) 
RUSSELL RICHARDS (S), ALSO BENJAMIN (4). WILLIAM 
(5), HENRY (6), WILLIAM C. (7). FRED H. (7). 



Benjamin Hillman (3), son of Benjamin (2) and Susanna 

Sampson, b. -; m. first, Abigail Mantor ; m. second. 

Love Cathcart. He was a Private in Capt. John Russell's 
Company, Revolutionary War. (See Revolutionary Roll 
Archives, State House, Boston, Vol. 36, Folio 188). They had 
fourteen children. 

Robert Hillman (4), b. Chilmark, March 30th, 1747. (His mother 
was Abigail Mantor). m. Rebecca Hillman, Chilmark, Martha's Vine- 
yard, May 11th, 1769. She was daughter of Thomas Hillman; b. 
Chilmark, March 20th, 1747. They lived upon the Hillman home- 
stead, Chilmark. 

Benjamin Hillman (4), b. Sept. 18th. 1755; m. Mary Hillman, 
daughter of Thomas. She was b. April 27th, 1751. He was Private 
in Capt. John Russell's Company, service July 28th to Sept. 30th, 177*;. 
Martha's Vineyard, Sea Coast Defense. 

(Above dates of birth taken from old Bible of Henry Hillman by 
his son William C. Hillman of Toledo, Ohio.) 

Zacariah Hillman (4), m. Mary Norton. 

Whitton Hillman (4), m. Olive Roche. Chilmark, Sept, 2nd, L784, 

Owen Hillman (4), m. Polly Norton. 

Walter Hillman (4). 

Alexander Hillman (4). 

Icnabod Hillman (4). b. Chilmark, March 7th, 177:'.; m. aboul 
1806, Jerusha Ridley; d. at sea, 1x15. 

Susanna Hillman (4). 

Marian Hillman (4). 

Martha Hillman (4), m. Joseph Chase 

Love Hillman (4), m. John Mayhew. 

Hannah Hillman (4), m. John Pease. 

Elizabeth Hillman (4). 

Robert Hillman (4), son of Benjamin (3) and Abigail Man- 
tor. They had nine children. 



i 1 THE 11 II. [.MAX FAMILY. 

Gilbert llillinan (5). 

Isaiah Hillman (5), b. Chilmark, June 2nd, 1771. 

Prince Hillman (5), b. Chilmark, June 16th, 177::. 

Uriel Hillman (5), t>. — ; d. Probably in one year, as name 

r< appears below. 

Uriel llillinan (5), b. Chilmark, Feb. 3rd, 177.".; m. Betsey Adams. 
al Chilmark. sin- was b. .May t;ih, 1774; d. Farmington, Mass., March 
25th, 1858. H>- 'l. Farmington, Me., Jan. 23rd, 1861. They moved to 
Fa rmington, Mie., 1807. 

Me pursued the trade of a house joiner in his native town. 
until [807, when he moved to Farmington, Me., and bought a 
farm in tin- Northeast pari ol the town, where In- spent his life. 
Me was an industrious and successful farmer, and respected 
f( ir his integril \ i >t' character. 

Robert llillinan (.".1. b. Chilmark, June 16th, 177H. 
James llillinan ( .", 1 , b. Chilmark Aug. 18th, 1781. 

Jonathan Hillman (5), b. Chilmark, Aim. 16th, 1 7 s :: ; ,1. Chilmark, 
.liils- l.'ih, 1861. 

Rebecca Hillman (.",). b. Chilmark, July 30th, 1785. 

Uriel Hillman (5), s<>n of Roberl (4) and Rebecca. They 
had ten children. 

Sophronia Hillman (6), b. Chilmark, July 14th, L798; d. Jan. 31st, 
ls\::. Unmarried. 

Isaiah Hillman < tl 1 . 1>. Chilmark, March 14th, 1800; m. Sept. 14th, 
1825, his cousin. Myra Hillman. sin ,1. May 8th, 1841. He married 
again, Jan. 26th, L846, Sarah Lambert, who 'lid Feb. 16th, I s 7 r. . He 
d. July 24th, 1870; resided in Martha's Vineyard. They hail six 
children. 

Gilbert R. llillinan < t; > , h. Tisbury, Mass.. March 16th, ism'. 

Alexander Hillman (6), b. Tisbury, Mass.. Feb. 14th. IS114. 

Harriet Hillman (6), b. Tisbury, Mass., July 8th, 1806; d. April 
Isi. L879. I 'nnia rried. 

John Hillman (6), b. Nov. 13th, L808; d. Sept. 24th, L862. 

Betsey Adams (t;». b. Aug. L3th, 1811. Unmarried. 

Cordelia Hillman (6), b. Sept. 1st, 1812.; m. 1830, Dexter B. 
N'-vins. He d. July 23rd, 1883; resided In East Hampton, Mass. They 
had tin children. 

[sabella llillinan (6), b. July 7th. 1815. 

Rebecca llillinan («;». b. May 5th, Is 17; d. April 9th, 1820. 

Gilbert R. Hillman (6), >'>n of Uriel Hillman, and Betsey 
Adams. At the age oi i<). he went to sea, and in [une, [821, 
saiU-d from Edgartown, Mass.. in the ship "L,one," on a whal- 
ing voyage around Cape I lorn, lie followed the sea-faring 
life fur more than twenty-five years, and was raised to the com- 
mand of a whale ship. Me was one of the earlier pioneers to 
California, where he engaged in farming, and in the transpor- 



POSTERITY OF BENJAMIN HILLMAX. 75 

tation of fruits upon the Sacramento River. Capt. Ilillman 
was a man of energy, and industry, and whatever he under- 
took was sure to result in pecuniary success. His farm, situ- 
ated in the Northern part of the town was in all its surround- 
ings, a model of neatness and thrift, which characterized it 1 - 
owner. 

He married in 1826, Mary, daughter of Ahell Moris l)avis 
Pettengill. They had eight children. 

Robert Hillinan (7), son of Gilbert R., and Mary Pettengill; b. 
April 16th, 1827; resided in California. Unmarried. 

Sophronia Ilillman (7), b. June 26th, 1829; m. June 11th, 1855 to 
Dr. John Almond, son of John and Eliza Thompson Richards. He was 
b. Sept. 26th, 1829. They had four children as follows: Edmund 
Russell Richards (8), b. June 27th, 1857. Elmer Ellsworth Richards 
(8), b. Aug. 24th, 1861; m. July 14th, 1884, M'abel Estelle Austin. 
Effie May Richards (8), b. March 16th, 1866. Frank Morrison 
Richards (8), b. Dec. 13th, 1868. 

Myra Hillinan (7), b. Dec. 17th, 1830; d. Oct. 27th, 1862. 

Margaret Hillinan (7). b. Aug. 27th, 1832; m. Oct. 29th, 1S59, 
Benjamin A. Davis. He was b. March 4th, 1832; resides in New Vine- 
yard. One child: Fred Gerald Davis, b. June 15th, 1869. 

Rebecca Hillinan (7), b. Jan. 16th, 1837; m. Nov. 13th, 1859 to 
Joseph E. Blabon; resides in Portland. 

Mary Elizabeth Hillinan (7), b. Dec. 31st, 1840; m. John Stoyell. 
He d. 1859. 

Gilbert Russell Hillinan (7), b. June 1st, 1843; d. Sept. 3rd, 1847. 

Gilbert Russell (7), b. Nov. 16th, 184 8. 

Benjamin Hillman (4), son of Benjamin (3), m. Mary Hill- 
man, daughter of Thomas Hillman. They had three children : 

William Ilillman (5), b. Chilmkrk, Martha's Vineyard, July 14th. 
1777; m. Amy . She was b. Dec. 4th, 1781. 

David Hillman (5), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Nov. 15th, 
1778. 

Jireb Hillman (5), b. Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Oct. 3 1st. 17s::. 

Children of William Hillman (5) were as follows: 

Benjamin (6). b. Feb. 5th, 1801. 
William (6), b. Jan. 5th, 1805. 
Anna (6), b. Jan. 16th, 180S. 
Henry (6), b. Feb. 28th, 1803. 
Rebecca (6), b. Feb. 13th. 
Minerva (6), b. Oct. 21st, 1811. 
Amy (6), b. Jan. 2nd, 1814. 
Elisha (6), b. Aug. 27th, 1817. 
Ester (6), b. Oct. 31st, 1819. 
Mary (6), b. Sept. 3rd, 1821. 
Stephen (6). 
George (6). 



70 Til i: II I I.I.MAX FAMILY. 

Henry (6), son of William (5) and Amy 1 1 ill man . b. Feb. 
28th, [8o3;m. Mary Ann Bosworth, b. March 30th, [805. They 
were married Jan. 22nd, [828. Both are dead; do not know 
dates of death. The) had three children as follow--: 

\ 1 1 n »— l>. Ilillman (7). b. April 19th, 1830; m. Permelia Wteu-rener, 
March 29th, L854. They had three children: Charles (8), Alice (8), 
and I [enry (8). 

In [899 he was living in Youngstown, < ). The author met 
him at his home. 

Rocksey B. Ilillman (7), b. Sept. 10th, 1831; m. John x. Love, 
July 2nd, 1861. Have three children: Mary (8), Ella (8), and 
Effie (8). 

William C. Ilillman. b. Feb. 23rd, 1839; m. Eugenia M. Lyons. 
Feb. 1st, L855. 

He writes me on May t6th, [905, as follows: 

••AM of the information I can find is from my father's old family 
Bible. My parents moved i<> Western New York, Livingston County, 
from Lowville, Lewis County, or as they called it in those days, the 
Black River County. 

From Western New York my parents moved to near Mcadville. 
Pa. Later they moved to Waterford, Erie County, Pa., where they 
lived until their death. 

We were married at West Middlesex, Mercer County, Pa. At that 
time, I was keeping hooks for the Middlesex Coal Company, and re- 
mained in their employ until 1862, when I enlisted in the Army, and 
was in the service until June, 1865. I was Firsl Lieut, of Company A. 
142nd Pa. Vol., and soon after the regiment was mustered in. was made 
Quartermaster, and later was appointed Asst. Commissary for the Third 
Division, Fifth Corp, army of the Potomac, and remained in that posi- 
tion until the close ,,t' tlie war. 

After returning from the Army I went into the mercantile busi- 
ness at West Middlesex; later was in business in Leaver Port. Frank- 
lin, and Bradford, Pa., and in isnt moved to Toledo, Ohio, and assisted 
in starting the Buckeye Supply Company, which was later merged 
with the National Supply Company, and of which I am now Vice 
I 'resident. Our children are as follows: 

lied II. Ilillman. b. April Hah. L862. 

Carrie E. Ilillman. b. Aug. L8th, 1866. 

Fl-Ollk Ilillinan. b. March 28th, lst;s; d. April 7th. 1896. 

Ida Ilillman. b. April 13th, 1 s 7 *• ; d. Aug. J 1st. L892. 

Harry II. Ilillman. I>. Nov. 7th, 1 s 7 4 . 

Blanche If. Ilillman. b. March 17th. 1872. 

Zachariah Hillman 14). son of Benjamin (3). 

Jethro Hillman 131. 

Zachariah Hillman ((>), b. New Bedford, Mass.; m. Sylvia 
Cornish Jenney. She was b. New Bedford, Mass; d. New 
Bedford, Mass. He d. New Bedford, Ma--. 

Whitten Hillman ( p. son of Benjamin (3). 




WILLIAM C. HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF ALEXANDER HILLMAN. 77 

Whitten Hillman (5). Children were: 

Emetine Hillman (6), b. Rockland, Me., L832; d. July 26th, is:,::. 

Mary Hillman (6), b. April 6th, 1833; resides Rockland. 

Richard Hillman (6), b. June 19th, 1836; m. Augusta J. Spear, 
Jan. 15th, 1856; resides Rockland. Me.; business, joiner. They had a 
son: Franklin K. Hillman. b. about 1S59, Rockland. Me. 

Ichabod Hillman (4), son of Benjamin (3). Children were 
as follows : 

Benjamin Hillman (5), b. Boston, Mass., L809; d. Boston, Mass., 
L811. 

Walter Hillman (5). 

Alexander Hillman (5). b. Boston, Mass., June 30th, 1807; m. 
Mary Tear Lewis, daughter of Nathaniel and Margaret Tear Lewis. 
She was b. Barnstable, Mass., April 23rd, 1S06; d. New Bedford, Mass.. 
Feb. 5th. 18 94. He d. New Bedford, Mass., June 5th, 1881. 

Charles Benjamin Hillman (5), b. Boston, Mass., 1809. Was 

killed in California 1850, age 41. Exact date of death not known to 
family. 

Alexander Hillman (5), son of Ichabod (4), m. Alary T. 
Lewis. Their children were: 

Benjamin Lewis Hillman (6), b. Providence. R. I., Aug. 4th. 1829; 
d. South Yarmouth, Mass., Sept. 9th, 1831. 

Roland Lewis Hillman (6). b. South Yarmouth. Mass.. April 2nd, 

1831; m. first. Lucinda J. Washburn, she d. 1861; m. second, Lucinda 
Burnham in Minneapolis, Kansas. She d. Tenn., 1892. He d. Min- 
neapolis, Kansas. June 27th, 1890. 

Charles Benjamin (6), b. South Yarmouth. Mass.. April 25th. 1S33; 
m. Clarinda T. Gifford, New Bedford, Mass. 

Sarah Lewis Hillman. (6). b. South Yarmouth, .Mass.. Now 20th, 

1834; d. South Yarmouth. Dee. 20th, 1834. 

Sarah Lewis Hillman (6), b. South Yarmouth. May 28th, 1836; m. 
Edwin B. Macy, New Bedford, Mass. 

Georgianna Hillman (6). b. South Yarmouth, Mass.. Nov. 20th, 
1849. 

Alexander Howes Hillman (6), b. South Yarmouth, July 4th. 1853; 
m. Josie W. Harrison, April 5th, 188 3. 

Thomas Ridley Hillman <6>. b. New Bedford, Mass.. Doc. 16th; 
1845; m. Charlotte N. Harlow, from New Bedford, Mass; d. New Bed- 
ford, Mass., Dec. 17th, 1898. 

John W. Ililnlman (6), b. New Bedford, Mass.. March 26th, 1,848; 
m. Ella F. Morton, of Fairhaven, Mass. 

Alexander Hillman (6), brother of Gilbert K., and son "l' 
Urial Hillman (5). Settled upon the James Rowings Farm 
in the Xorthcast part of the town: but afterwards removed to 
the Davis Farm in that part of Farmington known as "Indus- 
try." This farm, which is the largesl in area within the town 
limits, Mr. Hillman cultivated for more than thirty years. !li^ 
industry was proverbial, and he ranked among the largest 



78 THE II I U.MAX FAMILY. 

farmers in the country. He m. Oct. 17th. [824, Thankful, 
daughter of Abell and Ihiris l)a\i> Pettengill. She was b. 
\pril 6th, [805; d. April 3rd. 1851. He m. secondly. Jane 
Churchill, who d. March [st, 1855. He m. thirdly. Mrs. Mary 
Jane Lowry, who d. Ma) 15th. 1881. He had several children 
1>\ his first marriage : 

Uriel llillman (7). b. Feb. lltli. L826; d. April L2th, 1864. Qn- 
ma pried. 

Abel] Pettengill llillman (7), b. April 9th, 1828; resides Horn.- 
stead. Unmarried. 

Isaiah llillman (7), b. Oct. J4th. L830, Adin, Cal. Unmarried. 

Doris S. Pettengill llillman (7). b. Feb. L8th, 1833; m. Feb. 2Sth, 
1859, David Winslow Presson. They had four children: Mary Eliza- 
beth Presson (8), b. Feb. 10th, 1860; d. Jan. 9th, 1S64. Lilla Abell 
Presson (8), b. Sept. 4th, 1861; d. M&rch 14th. 1862. George McClel- 
lan Pressor) (8), b. Aug. 1st, 1864. Alexander llillman Presson (8), b. 
Jan. 16th, 1873. 

Gilbert Russell llillman (7), b. Feb. 23rd, 1835; m. Sept. 13th, 
1859, Mary H. Hard. Resides in New Vineyard. They had three 
children. 

Alexander llillman (7), b. Jan. 8th, 1837; d. Jan. 19th, 1863. 

Elizabeth Ann llillman. b. Sept. 9th, 1839; m. Sept. 9th, 1860, to 
Justin Luce of New Vineyard. She d. Dec. 21st, 1862. They had two 
children. 



CHAPTER X. 



POSTERITY OK JOHN (1), BENJAMIN (2), BENJAMIN (3), OWEN 
(4), OWEN' (5), BERIAH (6), HORACE (7), AND MILDRED 
HILLMAX (8). 



Benjamin Hillman (2), son of John (1). Appears in Book 
4. page 233 of the Records of Deeds, Edgartown, Mass.. Mar- 
tha's Vineyard, dated 1719. Benjamin's wife was named 
Susanna, and he had a son Benjamin. In Probate Records 3, 
page 178, Edgartown, Mass., will he found a will dated 1745. 
Sons of Benjamin Hillman, and Susanna Sampson: 

Benjamin, m. first, Love Cathart; m. second, - — ; m. third, 

Abigail Mantor. 

Seth. In New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. 22, 
page 175, it will be found that Seth Hillman was Corp. in Capt. Levi 
Ronnseville's Company of Minute Men. Marched on April 19th, 1775 
from Freetown, Bristol County, twenty-two miles, service three days. 

James, never married. 

Henry, had son, James. 

Silas, had three children: Sampson. Henry. Silas. 
Benjamin Hillman (3), son of Benjamin (2), m. Love Cath 
cart. He afterwards m. Abigail Mantor. Was Private in 
Capt. John Russell's Company, Revolutionary War. (See 
Revolutionary Roll Archives, State House, Boston. Vol. 36, 
Folio 188. His company under command of Major Bassett.) 
Children were: __ 

Robert, 

Benjamin, 

Zabariah, 

Whitten, 

Owen, 

Walter, 

Alexander, 

Ichabod, 

Matthew, 

Love. 

Hannah. 

Elizabeth, 

Susanna, 

Maria in. 



SI) THE II I I.I.MAN FAMILY. 

Owen Hillman 151. son of Benjamin (4). 111. Polly Norton. 
Their children \\ ere : 

Owen, 

Waller, 
Polly, 
Charlotte, 
< larissa, 
Cellna, 
I 51iza, 

Abigail, 

.lane, 

Susan. 

Ann. 

The author visited Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard in April, 
[905 and had an interesting visit with Mr. Beriah T. Hillman. 
Alter considerable discussion in regard to the Rev. Walter 
Hillman, whom Mr. Beriah Hillman had known personally. 
he kindly offered to write a short sketch of Rev. Walter 
llillman's life. 1 take much pleasure in copying it as follows: 

REV. WALTER HILLMAN, L.L. I). 

Rev. Walter Hillman, L.L. D., was born a1 North Tisbury, Martha's 
Vineyard, Massachusetts, Jan. 9th, 1829. His father was Capt. Walter 
Hillman. a successful Shipmaster, who was a son of Owen Hillman, 
who was a sun of Benjamin Hillman. who was a son of Benjamin Hill- 
man. who was a son of John Hillman. the first Hillman who came to 
the Island of Martha's Vineyard of whom their is any record. The 
mother of the subject of this sketch was Adeline (Norton) Hillman. 

Dr. Hillman's early education was obtained in the public schools 
of his native town and the Dukes County Academy < West Tisbury, 
Mass., ami Middleboro Academy, of Middleboro, Mass.: completing 
his preparation for college at the last named Academy. 

He entered Brown University of Providence, R. I., and graduated 
with honors and after due preparation entered upon the ministry as a 
Baptist, in 1856 he became president of the Central Female Insti- 
tute of Clinton. Mississippi afterwards, ami now, known as Hillman 
College. He was very successful in building up this Institute and 
starting it on its way as a full Hedged Female College, one of the best 
in the country. All through the dark days of the Civil War he re- 
mained at his post and overcame almost insurmountable difficulties in 
keeping his school alive, hut he lived to see his efforts crowned with 
.success. 

During the Civil War the endowment of Mississippi College was 
swepl away, leaving the college to struggle with a $ 1(1,000 debt in- 
curred in the preservation of the property of the college. Then Dr. 
Walter Hillman was chosen president and under his administration the 
buildings were repaired, the apparatus replenished and the work of 
resussitation was begun and the college was started on a successful 
career when in 1 S 7 2 he relinquished the presidency of Mississippi Col- 
lege to tfh-e his undivided attention to Hillman College, of which, when 
he died April 9th, 1894, he was president and occupied the chair of 
Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Greek. 




BERIAH TILTON HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OF OWEN HILLMAN. 81 

He was a pleasant companion, a fine scholar, and Christian gen- 
tleman. 

Edgartown, May 15th, 1905. 
Mr. H. W. Hillman. 

Dear Mr. Hillman — I enclose a brief sketch of Dr. Walter Hillman. 
I am sorry I haven't more material at hand that I might do him 
greater justice. I have snatched a few moments from my time which 
has been crowded with work since you were here to prepare some- 
thing for you. I regret that it is not better. 

I also send you under another cover catalogues of Hillman Col- 
lege and Mississippi College, and a picture of myself. I also enclose 
a brief statement of the work I have been doing. 

"Very truly yours, 

B. T. HILLMAN. 

The following is also in regard to Walter Hillman, L.L.D., 

taken from the Baptist Encyclopedia, by Cathcart. 

Walter Hillman, L.L. D., a distinguished educator in Mississippi, 
was born at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in 1829. After a preparatory 
Course at the Connecticut Literary Institution, and the Worcester 
Academy, he entered Brown's University in 1849. While there, he 
spent one year in teaching as sub-principal of the Worcester Academy, 
and as Classical Instructor in Pierce Academy. He graduated in 18 5 4 
with the degree of A. M., and was immediately elected Professor of 
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the Mississippi College at Clin- 
ton. In 1856 he became principal of the Central Female Institute in 
the same town, a connection he has retained until the present. During 
this time, he also held the presidency of the Mississippi College for 
six years. Under his administration, these institutions greatly pros- 
pered. Ordained to the ministry in 1858, he has since preached occa- 
sionally. 

Owen Hillman (5), son of Owen (4), m. Charlotte Tilton. 

Their children were : 

Beriah T., 

Francis Butler Tilton, 

Warren T., 

Zachariah, 

Caroline W. 

Charlotte Jane. 

Caroline W. Hillman, m. Joseph B. Nickerson, Oct. 6th, 

1853, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. 

Beriah Tilton Hillman, (6), son of Owen (5), m. A.bbie B. 

Pierce. They had the following children: 

Anna, 

Horace, 

Fanny, 

Arthur, 

Walter, 

Charlotte. 

The author visited Beriah T. Hillman at Edgartown, A 

tha's Vineyard in April, 1905. I was much pleased to 111 



Til i: II I 1. 1. MAN FAMILY. 

him. A courteous quiet gentleman of much dignity, and one 
who has the esteem of all his fellow-citizens in thai town. He 
occupies a prominent position as an official of the town, and 
his past and presenl work indicate that lie possesses a marked 
degree of ability. lie represents the type of man whose 
acquaintance it is a pleasure to cultivate. 

Beriah Tilton Hillman, attorney-at-law, now serving Ids 
seventeenth year as Register of Probate and Insolvency for 
Dukes County, Massachusetts, was horn in the Town of Chil- 
mark, Martha's Vineyard, January 28th, [843 and is the son 
of ' )wen and Charlotte- (Tilton) Hillman and a lineal descend- 
ant of John Hillman, whose name appears as a grantor on a 
deed dated [693 and recorded in the Registry of Deeds for 
Dukes County in Book \o. 1. page 258. Benjamin Hillman; 
son of John, appeared in a dcv(\ recorded in 1719 in Book No. 
4. page 323. He married at Dartmouth, .May 15. 1722, Susan- 
nah Sampson, daughter of Henry Sampson, who was a youth- 
ful member of the "Mayflower" company of Pilgrims who 
landed at Plymouth, Mass., in [620. Henry Sampson married 
February 6, [635-6, Ann Plummer. He died in Duxbury, 
Dec. 24th, 1684. His son James, horn before 1650, in Dux- 
bury, removed to Dartmouth before 1686 and died there in 
1 718. Benjamin Hillman died April 22nd. 1745. His will 
appears in the 1'robate Records for Dukes County, dated 
March 26th, 1745, in Book 3. page 178. Benjamin Hillman. 
Jr., son of Benjamin and Susannah and great grandfather of 
Beriah, served in the Revolutionary War under Major Bassett 
in Capt. Russell's Company. (See Revolutionary Roll State 
Archives, Boston Vol. XXXVI, folio 188). He was a farmer 
and a life-long resident of Martha's Vineyard. He married 
first. Love Cathcart; second, - -; third. Abigail Mantor. 

His will appears in hook 7, page 82, Probate Records for 
I Jukes County. 

Owen Hillman, son of Benjamin, Jr., and grandfather of 
Beriah T.. was a master mariner for a number of years and 
later a pilot. I le married Polly Norton of Rdgartown and they 
reared a large family. 

Owen Hillman, Jr., father of Beriah T., was born in Chil- 
mark, Jan. [2th, 1804. He commenced going to sea at the age 
Of fourteen years in the whaling service, and rose through the 



POSTERITY OP BERIAH T. HILLMAN. 83 

different grades of that service until he became a master 
mariner. His wife, Charlotte Tilton, a native of Chilmark, 
was a daughter of Beriah and Lydia (Butler) Tilton. 

Owen Hillman Jr., died in Chilmark, Oct. ioth, 1873, in his 
seventieth year and his wife died Feb. 5th, 1882, at the age 
of seventy-five. They reared six children, Caroline \\\, Fran- 
cis B. T., Warren T., Beriah T. and Charlotte J. Francis B. 
T., and Zachariah both died young. Warren T. Hillman 
graduated from the Bridgewater State Normal School and 
became a teacher and taught for a number of years in Massa- 
chusetts and then went to St. Louis, Mo., and became a teacher 
in the preparatory department of Washington University and 
while teaching, studied and graduated from the Medical Col- 
lege of Washington University and' began the practice of 
medicine at St. Loins and soon after died. 

Beriah T. Hillman received his elementary education in the 
district school of his native town and in the Dukes County 
Academy, and in 1861 entered the State Normal School at 
Bridgewater. In August of the following year discontinuing 
his studies he enlisted for nine months in Company K, Forty- 
third Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry. With this regi- 
ment he participated in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall and 
Goldsboro, North Carolina. After the expiration of his term 
of enlistment he resumed his studies at the Bridgewater Nor- 
mal School and on July 2nd, 1864, re-enlisted as a private in 
Co. C, Sixtieth Regiment, Mass. Volunteers. Was soon pro- 
moted to first sergeant and on July 31st, 1864, was commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, in which rank he served until the 
expiration of his term of service. After he was mustered out 
of service he returned to the Bridgewater Normal School and 
graduated, after which he taught successively in Chilmark. in 
the Boston Farm School, in Bernstable and in Quincy. For 
a while he carried on a country store at West Tisbury. 

He has served as a member of the School Committee for six 
years, three in Chilmark and three in Edgartown. In 1874 he 
was chosen Town Treasurer of Chilmark, and afterwards 
annually elected to that office for fifteen years. He was 
elected a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 
Dukes County in 1874, and again in 1885. In March. [889 he 
was appointed Register of Probate and Insolvency for Dukes 



M THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

County, Mass., and in the fall of thai year was elected to the 
same office, which office he has held until the present (1905), 
being re-elected from time to time. 

hi [893 having given attention previously for some time to 
the study of law he was admitted to the bar and has since 
continued to practice his profession. In [898 he was made 
special justice of the District Court for Dukes County. 

He is a Republican in politics, a Mason, a member of the 
(',. \. R., and the Loyal Legion, and a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

II. married Abby Bufforn Pierce and seven children have 
been born to them, and six arc now living, Anna Helen. 
Horace Owen, Fannie Beal, Arthur Beriah, Walter Pierce, 
and Charlotte. 

Horace Hillman (7), son of I Uriah T. Hillman, m. Hen- 
rietta Norton. They have one child, and live in Edgartown, 
Mass. Child's name is Mildred. 



CHAPTER XI. 



POSTERITY OF JOHN (1), BENJAMIN (2), SILAS (3), SAMPSON 
(4). MATTHEW (5), GEORGE W. (6). REV. JOHN H. (7), 
ALICE CLOE HILLMAN NOYES (8), AND HARRY GREELEY 
NO YES (9). 



Benjamin Hillman (2), son of John (1), m. Susanna Samp- 
son. One of their sons was Silas Hillman (3). 

Silas Hillman (3), son of Benjamin Hillman (2) ami 

Susanna Sampson, m. — . They had three sons: 

Samson (4), 
Henry (4), 
Silas (4). 

Samson Hillman (4), hrst son of Silas Hillman (3), b. June 
20th, 1761 ; m. Demarus Look, Feb. 25th, 1783; d. about 1834. 
She was born Aug. 23rd, 17^4. They had the following chil- 
dren : 

Susanna Hillman, b. May 24th. 17S4; d. Feb. 18th. 1791. 

Matthew Hillman, b. May 17th, 1786. 

Anne Hillman, b. Oct. 17th, 1788. She died without any children. 

Polly Hillman, b. Jan 26 th, 1791. 

Mayhew Hillman, b. March 4th, 1793. 

Betsy Hillman, b. March 26th, 1795. 

Benjamin Hillman, b. July 21st, 1797. 

John Hillman, b. Feb. 28th, 1800. 

Daniel Hillman, b. April 18th, 1803. 

Daniel Hillman, youngest son of Samson and Demarus 

Looker Hillman, b. April 18th, 1803, Cambridge. Washington 

Co., New York; m. Louisa A. Wheldon at Kastmi, \. Y.. 

daughter of Francis James Wheldon, Fasti m. X. Y. She was 

b. Feb. 22nd, 1822, Easton, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 21st, [884, Pontiac, 

Michigan. He d. April -, i88t, Pontiac, Michigan. Their 

children were as follows: 

Harriet Jane Hillman, b. Cambridge, N. Y.. 184:.: m. 1868, «'■• 

bridge, N. Y., to Charles English, Her present residenci G lison, 

Mich. (1905). They had five children. 

Silas Augustus Hillman. (Sec data page— 1. 

Henry Hillman (4), second son of Silas (3). 



8G TH E II I I.I.MAN FAMILY 

Silas Hillman (4). third son of Silas (3), m. first, March 
[8th, [779, Eunice Look; m. second, Nov. 28th, 1798, Sukie 
Jon< 

Matthew Hillman (5), second child, and oldest son of Sam- 
son Hillman. He had two wives, b. May 7th, 1786; m. Mary 
Potter, first wife. Shed. after having seven children. 

He d. [868. 1 First child died). 

George \\ . Hillman (6), b. Dec. L8th, 1812. 
James Harvej Hillman (6), b. Nov. 9th, 1814. 
Mary Ann Millinan (6), b. Feb. 14th, 1815. 
Ira Martin Hillman (6), b. May 6th, 1816. 
Susan Hillman (6), b. Nov. 25th, L819. 
William Henry Hillman (ti), b. March 21st, 1821. 

Matthew Hillman, m. secondly, Delina Ballow, born in 
Rhode Island. First child, Caroline. 

Isaac Merritt Hillman, b. Dec. 21st, 1824. 

Caroline Hillman. b. Nov. 16th, 1826. 

Morgan W. Hillman. b. Jan. 12th, 1828. 

Hiram Hillman. b. Nov. 15th, 1829. 

Ramson IJ. Hillman, b. Nov. 11th, 1831. 

Eliza Jane Hillman and Anne .lane Hillman. b. Sept. 5th, 1833. 

La Payette Hillman. b. July 9th, 1839. 

Mariam Louisa Hillman. b. Aug. 2nd, L842. 

Benjamin l\ Hillman. b. Jan. 24th, L845. 

George W. Hillman (6), son of Matthew (5), b. Cambridge, 
X. Y.. Dec. [8th, 1812; m. Cloe Ann Dayton, Hadley, X. Y.. 
Feb. 2nd, [837. She was b. Hadley, X. Y.. Nov. 12th, [816. 
Children were as follows : 

John Henry Hillman. <7>, b. March li 1st. 1839. 
.Mary Jane Hillman (7), b. July 23rd, L841. 
Silas Dayton Hillman (7), b. Sept. 23rd, 1S45. 
Charles Matthew Hillman (7), b. June 2nd, 1849. 
George Nelson Hillman (T). I>. July 14th, 1n:.l'. 
Samuel Thomas Hillman (7). b. June 8th, 1854. 
William Oren Hillman (7). b. Dee. 6th, 1859. 

Rev. John H. Hillman (7). 1). Greenwich, X. Y.. March 21st, 
[839; in. Hannah Greeley. She was b. Londonderry, X. II.. 
May o lst - [ 847- They were married in Cacworth, X. H., 
April 5th, [869. 

George N. Hillman was born on a farm, at Centre Falls, 
town of Greenwich, Washington County. X. Y., July 14th. 
[852, and was educated in the common schools and at Fort 
Edward Institute. 




GEO. N. HILLMAX 




RESIDENCE OF GEO. N. HILLMAN, ST. PAUL, MINN. 



POSTERITY OF GEORGE W. HILLMAX. 87 

Aside from teaching a few terms of district school, his life- 
work has been that of a court and legislative reporter. 

At the age of 13 he began the study of Graham's Standard 
Phonography, at 17 he did his first public reporting, and at 20 
was appointed official court reporter for Washington County, 
N. Y. This position he held until the spring of 1874, when 
he went to St. Paul, Minn., Where he entered actively upon 
the duties of his profession, first reporting a lengthy legisla- 
tive investigation. 

During the legislative session of 1874, his brother Silas D., 
(an accomplished court reporter now residing at Minneapolis), 
while serving as enrolling clerk of the house, secured the 
passage of a general law for the employment of official report- 
ers in the district court. Under this law the subject of this 
sketch was appointed in the judicial district embracing the 
City of Minneapolis — at that time containing a population of 
about 20,000. Here he served for about one year and then 
resigned to accept a salaried position in the judicial district 
embracing St. Paul — at that time having a population consid- 
erably larger than Minneapolis — which position he has held 
for the past thirty years. 

The population of the Twin Cities now approximates 500,- 
000. Naturally litigation has greatly increased during this 
time and six judges are occupied in each city in the district 
court. Mr. Hillman is appointed by the judges at St. Paul and 
employs a sufficient corps of trained assistants to perform the 
work of this judicial district. All write the same system of 
shorthand and each reads at sight the other's notes. His 
brother William and his son George B., are members of his 
staff, also his daughter Lottie, who is an expert type-Writer 
operator. . In fact it has become sort of a proverb that the 
Hillmans constitute a family of court reporters. 

In addition to routine work he has from time to time 
reported investigations, conventions, arguments, addresses, 
etc. In 1875, Henry Ward Beecher gave him the credit of 
making the best report of a sermon delivered by him at Si. 
Paul he had received outside of the City of New York — a 
remark widely quoted at the time by the newspapers. 

In 1878 he reported for a legislative committee an investi- 
gation of charges of arbitrary and oppressive conduct on the 



88 THE HI I. L.MAX FAMILY. 

part of a certain district judge. The legislature was nearing 
adjournment and the house decided to hear the voluminous 

timony — which through six length) sessions of the house 
In- rapidly read from his shorthand notes. When articles of 
impeachment wen- preferred and the judge placed on trial, he 
was chosen official reporter for the court of impeachment, 
made up of members of the state senate. The trial was con- 
ducted by a board of five managers, with lawyn-s for the 
accused, and lasted more than two months. A complete daily 
reporl of the trial, including the arguments and rulings, was 
furnished to the court, and an abstract of the evidence was 
also prepared for a daily paper. Ml the shorthand notes were 
taken by him and one assistant, who dictated to six or eight 
long-hand writers (this being before the advent of type-writer 
and phonograph) who wrote on narrow slips afterwards placed 
in consecutive order on tablet sheets. After comparison with 
the original notes these sheets were sent to the printer. He 
also read the proof. The printed record as published by the 
state contains upwards of 2,000 printed pages. For this work 
he received forty cents per folio. 

In [881 he and his brother Samuel took the testimony before 
a legislative committee upon charges against a judge accused 
of drunkenness during performance of judicial duties, and 
articles of impeachment followed. The trial was reported by 
him and Joseph E. Lyons (a splendid reporter, formerly of 
New York City), in practically the manner above indicated, 
and was published by the state in three volumes, containing 
upwards of 3,000 pages. The result in the former case was a 
mistrial or failure of conviction ; in the latter a conviction was 
had and tin- respondent disqualified from holding office. 

In [872 Mr. I Tillman was married to Alary E. Cutter, of 
Greenwich, X. Y., and their children are Lottie May, George 
I'... Homer C, Minnie Ann, Horace' I'., ami Edna. All are 
married except the two youngest girls and the subject of this 
sketch has six grand-children. For many years he has been 
an official member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of 
St. Paul. 

Silas Augustus Hillman, son of Daniel and Wheldon Hill- 
man; 1). April 25th, [851, Cambridge, Washington Co.. New 
York ; m. April 25th, 1872, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, to 




REV. JOHN HENRY HILLMAN 



POSTERITY OP SILAS A. HILLMAN. 89 

Mary E. Brewster of Pontiac, Michigan, daughter of Amelia 
Swayze Brewster. She was b. Dec. 25th, [855, ai Pontiac, 
Michigan. Residence of Silas Hillman, 623 Trumbell We., 
Detroit. Michigan. Their children were as follows: 

Lena Mae Hillman. b. Feb. 19th, 1872, Pontiac, Michigan; in. Oct. 
4th, 1897, Windsor, Ont., to George Henry Stanton. No children. 

Eva Amelia Hillman, b. Oct. 21st, 1878, Pontiac. Michigan; m. 
May 19th, 1904, Detroit. Mich., to Henry F. Johnson. No children. 

In a letter from Silas Augustus Hillman of Detroit, May 

13th, 1905, the following interesting information is given: 

"I will give you the record as I have it in the old family Bible 
once belonging to Sampson Hillman. There it is spelled 'Samson.' 
The Bible is dated 1795." 

He then gives the name of Samson Hillman, birth and mar- 
riage. The wife's name is given as "Looker," while in prev- 
ious records it is given as "Hook." He further states: 

"Matthew Hillman was George Hillman's father, Rev. J. H. Hill- 
man's grandfather, and my uncle." 

"Mayhew Hillman went West, had a son Silas. He lived ami died 
in Utah, and this Silas has a daughter, Mrs. Julietta F. Simons, Cam- 
den, Mo. I have letters from her. She has brothers still in Salt Lake 
City, or near there. They are Eustace, Joseph, Ira and Isaac Hillman. 
The last two lived at Monmouth, Mines, Jaub Co., Utah. I have one 
cousin living in Michigan — Mary A. Hillman, daughter of John Hill- 
man. Her name is Mrs. Elmer Commings, Holly, Mich." 

(Signed) S. A. HILLMAN, 

623 Trumbell Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF REV. JOHN HENRY 

HILLMAN. 

John Henry, the eldest son of George W., and Chloe Ann 
Dayton Hillman, was horn March 21st, 1839, on a farm a little 
northward of the hamlet of Centre Falls, Town of Greenwich, 
Washington County, N. Y. His grandfather, Matthew Mill- 
man, a native of Martha's Vineyard, had three years before 
bought the farm of the Rev. Edward Barber estate, and George 
\\\, and wife who were married Feb. 2nd, [837, went to house- 
keeping on the place in the spring of the same year and worke 1 
it fourteen years on shares and then purchased it and lived 
there until their recent decease. To them were born seven 
children, six sons and one daughter. There for twenty-two 
and a half years farming was the chief occupation of the sub- 
ject of this sketch. There was always plenty of work on the 
farm of 115 acres. 

The surrounding scenery was beautiful and picturesque. 
The blue hills and mountains of Vermont meet the sky some 



Ml) THE HILLM.W FAMILY. 

fifteen miles eastward. The Battenkill like a silver ribbon 
winds its way down among the bills through its fertile vale 
and to the westward about four miles makes one of the mosl 
attractive cataracts, the 1 )ionondehowa, and going smilingl) 
mi a few miles joins the majestic Hudson about a mile north- 
ward from the spot where Burgoyne surrendered to the 
American forces in the war of the Revolution. 

Always in general good health, and taught early most kinds 
of farm work as well as obedience to parents and teachers, 
"the people's college," the district school, was where he learned 
to read, write and cipher, lie began to attend school at the 
Greenwich Academy in the fall of 1853, George D, Stuart, a 
graduate of Union College being the excellent principal. He 
attended school at the academy some ten terms in all. In the 
fall of '53 at a camp-meeting held in Taylor's grove, about half 
a mile west of the village of Greenwich, then called Union 
Village, he earnestly and openly sought and experienced 
religion. He soon afterward united with the church of his 
parents, the Methodist Episcopal. 

Many are the pleasant recollections of the early home-life 
and friends, school-mates and teachers, both of the district 
school and of the academy. How precious for the most part 
the influence brought to bear upon his young heart and life! 
The family altar was never for a day forgotten. The Indian 
weed and intoxicating drinks had the go-by. Temperance and 
anti-slavery principles were faithfully inculcated. The Sun- 
day school and various public religious services of the Sabbath. 
and social and extra religious meetings on week nights and 
choice and abundant literature in the home and libraries at 
hand contributed to make wiser the head and better the life. 
The names of a score of his teachers, and pastors would make 
but a partial list of those who are gladly and gratefully recalled 
in the bright years of the past as those who had a part in the 
formation of his manners and character. 

Having taught three terms in district schools, and having 
received licenses as an exhorter and local preacher from the 
church authorities, in the autumn of 1S01, he began studies in 
his theological course at the Methodist Iliblical Institute. Con- 
cord, N. H. With such instructors as Profs. Vail, Merrill and 
Patten, he graduated with honor in a class of ten, June 9th, 



POSTERITY OP REV. JOHN H. HILLMAN. 91 

1864. At the session of the New Hampshire Conference held 
a few weeks before at Lebanon he united with that body on 
trial. He was received into full connection in the spring of 
'66 and ordained deacon by Bishop Simpson in the session at 
Keene, N. H. In the spring of '68 he was elected to elder's 
orders and ordained by Bishop Ames at the Conference session 
in Lawrence, Mass. April 5th, '69 on his way to Conference 
at Lisbon, N. H., he was united in marriage with Miss H. Jen- 
nie Greeley of Acworth. They continued their bridal tour to 
the Troy Conference in session at West Troy and the old New 
York home and vicinity. 

His daughter Alice was born Jan. 17th, 1870, in the parson- 
age at North Charlestown where he began housekeeping. 
Mary Ellen was born in Sunapee, July 17th, 1872. Charles 
W., in Marlborough, Aug. nth, 1874; Franklin H., in Canaan, 
May 29th, 1877; Harry L., in Rindge, Sept. 25th, 1881 ; Arthur 
S., in Brookline, Jan. 22nd, 1884. 

The Conference year '86 was spent at North Haverhill. The 
years '87 and '88 were spent in Warren. 

In the spring of '89 after having been twenty-five years in 
the active and regular work of the Christian ministry, at the 
earnest call of parents and at the wish of brothers in the West, 
he moved to his childhood home to assist his father, who was 
in poor health. For sixteen years he wrought again with 
might and main as in former years, following the plow and 
cultivator, and wielding the hoe and axe, and "rocking the 
cradle," in the grain fields, raking and binding, running mower 
and horse-rake, and picking stone and trimming fruit trees, 
and hauling stuff to market, et cetera ad finem. At the same 
time as the years have quickly come and gone he has found 
and improved the opportunities to preach from time to time as 
solicited for nearly three-fourths of the Sabbaths at Batten- 
ville and other places. 

Sickness and death visit the old home. His beloved father, 
a man of integrity and greatly respected, died Oct. 20th, 1889. 
His daughter Mary Ellen, a member of the Epworth League, 
and dear to all who knew her, passed away with brief illness 
March 22nd, 1892. Charles Wesley, his right-hand man on 
the farm several years, after an illness of a few weeks, died 
Sept. 24th, 1903. And on May 10th, 1904, in her 88th year his 



92 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

devoted mother breathed her last in her dear home of the 
previous sixty-seven years of her life. In accordance with tin- 
will hi" his father, being tin- executor of the same, he sold the 
old farm, deeding it away April 5th, [905, having moved with 
his small Family of wife and daughter, Lois S.. who was born 
April [3th, [892, into the beautiful village of Greenwich, his 
present home. Attending to estate business of his son and of 
his father, with other matters, his time and attention are just 
n< »w largely occupied. 

In the latter part of last February he enjoyed a visit in 
Schenectady, forming acquaintance with Mr. Harry \V. Hill- 
man and others in that enterprising city with its magnificent 
planl of the General Electric Company. In the first part of 
April following he visited New England. While there he at- 
tended the session of the Mew England Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, the [09th in its history, and held 
in the cleanly city of Melrose. He was in Host mi a few hours. 
going out to Mount Auburn, and to the headquarters of the 
school of theology of Boston University, 12 Somersel Street. 
He paid a visit to his brother-in-law, Charles S. Greeley, in 
his wife's native town. Londonderry, \. IT. He made brief 
stops ill Manchester and Concord and attended the 76th si - 
sion of his own Conference, the New Hampshire, in Claremont, 
mar the junction of the Sugar and Connecticut rivers. There 
he met many friends in the Conference and former parishion- 
ers, having spent eight years, serving neighboring charges and 
attended several years the Claremont Junction Union camp- 
meeting in the extreme west part of the town. 

With some good degree of success in his charges in the 
honorable bod) lasl named and oilier fields of toil, how firll of 
brightness and peace the speeding years with some clouds, 
some sorrow and some financial losses! 

With a deep interest in current events and the vital ques- 
tions of the day and the work and influence of Christianity in 
our world, he counts himself a lover of all things beautiful, 
true and g( » id. 

He takes a deep interest in the cause of temperance and 
votes for prohibition, but believes the drink- evil must be over- 
come by the union and well directed efforts of all legitimate 
agencies, lie reads with interest the news of the times as to 



POSTERITY OF ALICE CLOE HILLMAN NOYES. 93 

the great conflict between Russia and Japan and the battles 
waging or pending in other fields of strife in the material, 
social, educational, moral and religious enterprises of our 

times. 

He has paid some attention to stenography and done some 
court and newspaper reporting, but leaves the strenuous work 
for the most part to the experts, including three of his brothers 
in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. 

He delights in good music, vocal or instrumental, and loves 
stories with good morals. He loves poetry and has attempted 
the muse occasionally but has written more sermons than 
rhym-es. 

He considers the Christian Church the best organized 
agency for good the world has known or ever will know. 

He is interested in everything which seems essential to the 
elevation of man in every point of view. He would practice 
as he would urge upon others the four P's: Prudence, Punc- 
tuality, Promptness, Perseverance. He feels that the path of 
duty is the path of safety, and that to be a true disciple of 
Christ is to attain unto that which is the highest and best one 
can hope and live for. Believing the Sermon on the Mount 
the grand standard for moral achievement he thinks well of 
these words of Tennyson : 

"Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'Tis only noble to be good ; 

Kind hearts are more than coronets 

And simple faith than Norman blood." 

Their children were as follows: 

Alice Cloe Hillman (8), b. Jan. 17th, 1870; m. Wilbur Fiske Noy< 
M. D., .April 23rd, 1892. 

Mary Ellen Hillman (8), b. July 17th, 1872; d. March 20th, 1892. 

Charles Wesley Hillman (8), b. Aug. 11th, 1874. 

Franklin Herltrart Hillman (8), b. May 29th, 18 7 7. 

Harry Leeds Hillman (8), b. Sept. 25th, 1881. 

Arthur Samuel Hillman (8), b. Jan. 22nd, 1884. 

Lois Sophia Hillman (8), b. April 13th, 1892. 

Alice Cloe Hillman (8), b. Jan. 17th, 1870; m. Wilbur Fiske 
Noyes, M. D., April 23rd, 1892. 

Their ch'ildren are as follows : 



94 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

Harold Greeley Nbyes (9), b. Sept. 27th, 1893. 
Theodore Millard Noyes (9), b. July 3lst 1895. 
Wilbur Piske Noyes, Jr. (9), b. June 12th, 1897. 

( >n March 2nd, 1905, Rev. John H. Hillman of Greenwich, 
X. Y.. kindly sent to the author, the obituary of Le Roy Hill- 
man, formerly of Greenwich, X. Y. He was the son of John 
I I ill man (5), of the same branch of 1 lillmans mentioned in this 
chapter. Following is a copy of the same: 

LEROY IIIIXM AN. 



Death of Former Greenwich Man at His Oklahoma Homo. 

The Herald "f Canova, South Dakota, of January sixth records the 
death of LeRoy Hillman. formerly of Greenwich. Mr. Hillman has 
many relatives in this vicinity, among them a half-sister, Mrs. Daniel 
Becker of this town. 

Speaking of his life the Herald says: 

"Born July 29, 1829. in Washington County, New York, where he 
grew to manhood and later was united in marriage to Miss Maria A. 
Foster, September 17th. 1851. 

"To this union eleven children were born, Mrs. Mary A. McClarin- 
non, Lemuel F., Charles L.. Mrs. Lola E. Gough, Lincoln H.. Willis S.. 
Willie I>.. all of whom live in or near Canova, Henry A., of Xardin, 
Oklahoma, Leslie O., of Sioux Falls. S. Dakota, Alice Rose, who died 
in infancy and Mrs. Sarah Stewart, of Chicago. 

"He united with the Baptist church at Greenwich, X. A'., early in 
ll'i and has been a whole soul, loyal and devoted Christian. 

"In 1857 when the West was wholly in an undeveloped state he 
came to Iowa starting a neat little nursery at Hardin, where he was 
busily engaged for seven years. 

"His business nourished for if he looked at a twig it seemed to nod 
and suddenly burst into a majestic, well rounded growth, towering 
higher and higher until its branches towered far heavenward into the 
azure blue. 

"Finding better opportunities for broadening his work he went to 
Minnesota and engaged again in his favorite occupation, taking up bee- 
keeping in connection. 

"With an apiary stocked with 150 colonies and a rapidly growing 
hortieultured trade he found himself a strenuously busy man. 

"Besides transforming 160 acres of wet prairie land into a magnifi- 
cent, sweet-scented park, he unconsciously raised many monuments to 
his name, which bear witness today in prolific, thrifty growing 
orchards, dotted here and there over that country. 

"At the close of eighteen years he had a home that was not only 
unique in appearance but abounding in all kinds of small fruits and 
berries. 

"Anxious to help his boys he came to South Dakota in 1881 pro- 
curing a generous slice of Uncle Sam's free land for each. 

"With untiring energy he has toiled and worked, battering against 
drought insects and ceaseless blasts until he has rounded out another 
beautiful, parklike home which will stand for generation to the glory 
of his name. Always original in ideas his work stands out beyond 
compare. 

"After the death of his wife, five years ago, he retired from the 
farm to a well earned rest; but the breaking asunder of this tie was 



DEATH OF LEROY HILLMAN. 95 

not long to be endured. His mind seemed to dwell on the thoughts of 
her and celestial associations, until his own life was brought into closer 
relation with that of the divine. 

"Religious works and magazines were a delight to him and the 
Bible his constant companion. The closing years of his life were beau- 
tifully filled with the thoughts and spirit of the Christ life. 

"One of his favorite scripture passages was "I would rather depart 
and be with Christ, which is far better for me." 

"A large concourse of friends gathered at the Congregational 
church where the funeral services were held on Sunday New Year's 
Day, at 1 o'clock, p. m., conducted by Rev. Alderson of Winfred 
assisted by Rev. Thomas of Union and Rev. Adams of Canova 

"The children were all present. One son, L. F., arrived on Satur- 
day from Minnesota, the last to come from a distance. 

"A great many comforting words were drawn from the text 1 Cor 
15: 55 to 5 7. Among the songs sung were some of Mr Hi'llman's 
favorites. , 

"The remains were laid to rest in the Canova cemetery where the 
deceased, when in health, had spent many days beautifying the 
grounds of his last resting place." 

A dear one from us is taken, 

A voice we loved is still; 
We cannot help but feel forsaken, 

Yet like him, we'll yield to God's will. 

His precepts we'll revere and continue 

His faith we'll strive to embrace; 
In his footsteps we'll wander, 

Until we meet him face to face. 

God in his all wise judgment. 

Has called him to his Heavenly home, 
In an unbroken band we'll be united, 

Around the Great White Throne. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE HAD] M INF] ELD (X. J.) BRANCH OF THE HI U.MAX FAMILY 
— POSTERITY OP JOHN (1), JOHN (2), DANIEL (3), DANIEL 
(4), DANIEL (5), SAMUEL STOKES HILLMAX (6), BEN- 
JAMIN K. i 7 i. AXD REMER C. HILLMAN (S». ALSO JOAB 
(3), BPHRIAM (I i. SAMUEL (5), AXD SARAH CRAWFORD 
II I 1. 1. MAX If!). 



Considerable of the following data in regard to the Haddon- 
field, \. J.. Hillmans was furnished me in [898 by Mrs. K. S. 
Evans, 203 Wesl Main St., Haddonfield, X. J. In her lei 
she enclosed valuable data furnished by another party, and 
giving a large number of dates, and references to Hillmans. 
In closing her letter l<> me. she states as follows: 

•| hope this rough affair will be excused, being done in the greatesl 
nf haste, being nov* in my 78th year, and do not like writing in any 
hurry, which i am forced to do. The nanus <>f Daniel ami John 
occuring so often in each family makes connections rather difficult. 

Meeting; records, family records, wills and other reliable sources 

represented here, and titles." 

John Hillman (1) was born probably about [650-60. He 
was a husbandman. The plantation which he owned, and 
upon which he lived, he purchased of Francis Collins in 1679. 
It contains 170 acres of Gloucester Count}- Township, now 
Centre Township. 

It is now 11005) the Village of Snow Hill (colored settle- 
ment- about half white residents). 

From Haddonfield, \. J., in 1720. John Hillman conveyed 
by (\ck-<\ of gift, this tract of land, to his son John, anticipating 
bis will. The will bore date 1707. but was not proven until 
1729 — soon after bis death. An inventory of his personal 
property amounted to [92 pounds. 

His children appeared to have been two sons, and two 
daughters : 

Daniel (2), 
John <:• ), 
Ann ( 2 ) , 
Abigail (2), 



POSTERITY OF JOHN HILLMAN (1). 97 

Margaret, his widow, also survived him. Records would 
indicate that Margaret, widow of John Hillman was married 
again to John Eastlack in 1735. 

John Hillman (2), son of John (1), b. - -; m. Eliza- 

beth Bates in 1745. She was the daughter of Joseph Hillman ; 
d. 1764. (His wife survived him). They had five sons. 

Joab (3), 
Josiah (3), 
Daniel (3), 
James (3), 
John (3), 

Daniel Hillman (2), son of John (1), b. ; m. 

Elizabeth — ; d. 1764. (His wife survived him). 

They had four sons : 

John (3), 
Daniel (3), 
James (3), 
Joseph (3). 

Abigail Hillman (2), daughter of John (1), m. John Gill in 
1767. Browning, author of "Americans of Royal Descent." 
traces Gill's ancestry back to Edward I, King of England, who 
married Princess Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III, King of 
Castile. Their first child was born in 1322. 

Daniel Hillman (3), son of Daniel (2), m. Abigail Nicholson, 
daughter of Samuel Nicholson of Salem, Mass., in 1743; d. 
Aug. 9th, 1763. They had five children: 

Daniel (4), 

Samuel (4). 
Elizabeth (4), 
Sarah (4), 
Abigail ( 4 ) . 

Daniel Hillman (3) died at about 40 years of age in 1763. 
His will bears date of August 14th, 1762; probated Sept. 19th, 
1763. Names, Abigail Hillman, and five children: Sarah, 
Elizabeth, Daniel, Samuel, child unborn. Wife, Executrix, 
and John Gill, Executor and guardian of children. 

Hannah Nicholson, sister of Abigail Hillman, married John 
Hillman (3). 

Samuel Nicholson was father of Abigail Hillman. The 
Nicholson family had been associated with Salem since their 



'.IX THE HILLMAN FAMILY (HADDONFIELD BRANCH). 

arrival. Samuel Nicholson had three wives; the third wife 
had three husbands before marrying him. 

John Hillman (3), son of I >aniel (2), b. - — ; m. Han- 

nah Nicholson, sister of Abigail Hillman. 

Joseph Hillman (3), son of Daniel (2), b. ; m. 

Sarah Shivers. We think from records that Joseph Hillman 
married the second time Drusilla Cheesman in [763. 

Joab Hillman (3), son of John (2), b. ; m. Laticia 

Cheesman in [748. 

Josiah Hillman (3), son of John (2), b. - - : m. Eliza- 

beth Paneoast. 

James Hillman (3), son of John (2), m. Mary Smallwood in 
' 754- 

Ephraim Hillman (4), son of Joab (3), b. Kirkwood, X. J., 
Jul) ist. 1773; m. 1797 or 1798 to Elizabeth Crawford : d. Kirk- 
wood, X. J.. July 14th, 1845. 

Daniel Hillman (4). son of Daniel Hillman (3), b. Feb. [2th, 
1757; m. Martha Ellis, daughter of Isaac and Alary Ellis. 
They had a son Daniel who married Esther Stokes. They also 
had a son Joseph who removed to New York State and died 
near Poultneyville, about eight miles from Elmira, X. Y. 
Joseph had a daughter who married a Rush: her name was 
.Martha Hillman. Hannah Hillman married a Piersol. 

Isaac Ellis, father of Martha Ellis, who married Daniel Hill- 
man. From a very old Bible on the inside was written. Isaac 
Ellis, his hook. Jan. 1765. It was a very tine one once, but 
not well cared for. It bears writing London M.D.C.C. XII or 
1712. The record is on the last leaf, and on the back of the 
title leaf of the Xew Testament, is recorded the marriage of 
Daniel Hillman to Abigail Nicholson. In the account of the 
Early Settlers of Newton Township, Samuel Nicholson, his 
wife Ann. and their children came from Winston in Notting- 
hamshire, England, in the ship Griffith of London. Robert 
Griffin, Master. They arrived in the Delaware River Sept. 
23rd, 1075. Children's names ware: 

Parabol, b. Feb. 7th, 1659. 
Elizabeth, K March 22nd, 1664. 
Samuel, b. Aug. 30th, 1666, 
Joseph, b. Feb. 30th, 1669, 
Abel, b, May 2nd, 1672. 



POSTERITY OF DANIEL HILLMAX (5) 99 

Elizabeth Hillman (4), daughter of Daniel (3), b. May 23rd, 
175 1 ; m. Levi Ellis in 1783. 

Sarah Hillman (4). daughter of Daniel (3), b. Feb. 19th, 
1745 ; m. Isaac Ellis in 1785. 

Abraham Hillman (4), son of Daniel (3), b. Sept. 2nd, 1747. 
Record in the old Bible gives another child born 12th day of 
, 1749- 

Abigail Hillman (4). daughter of Daniel (3), b. June nth, 
1754. Another record of Abigail, b. Sept. 9th, 1762. First 
Abigail must have died. 

Samuel Hillman (5), son of Ephraim (4), b. at Kirkwood, 
X. J., Sept. 4th, 1800; m. Keziah French at Kirkwood, N. J., in 
1822. She was b. June 7th, 1803, Kirkwood, N. J.; d. Jan. 
30th, 1879, Haddonfield, N. J. He d. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 
26th, 1856. 

Daniel Hillman (5), son of Daniel (4), b. near Ellisburg, 
Delaware Township, Camden County, N. J., June 6th. 1786; m. 
Esther Stokes, Sept. 10th, 1815 ; d. near Ellisburg, Delaware 
Township, Camden County, N. J., April 2nd, 1858. 

Samuel Stokes Hillman (6), son of Daniel (5), b. Ellisburg, 
X. J.. Aug. 1 8th, 1816; m. Rebecca Ford of Philadelphia, Pa., 
March 12th, 1840. She was b. Gibbstown, N. J., Feb. 7th. 
1816; d. Haddonfield, X. J., March 12th, 1886. He d. Haddon- 
field, X. J., Jan. 13th, 1887. 

Abel Hillman (5), son of Daniel (4), m. Sarah Barton. 

Edward Hillman (5), son of Samuel (4). Removed to 
Michigan from Haddonfield, X T . J. 

George Hillman (5), son of Samuel (4). 

Daniel Hillman (5), son of Samuel (4), b. Oct. 25th, 1782; 
m. Grace Haines, Jan. 14th, 1806. She was b. March 2nd. 
1773; d. July 12th, 1826, age 53 years, 4 months, 10 days. 1 [e 
d. Oct. 2nd, 1831, age 49 years. They had five children. 
Grace Hillman, came with her children from Trenton, X. J., to 
rejoin her husband in Greenup County, Ky., in 1818. 

Daniel Hillman (6), son of Daniel (5). 

Grace Haines Hillman (6), b. Feb. 3rd, 1807. 

Jane Hillman (6), daughter of Daniel Hillman (5) and 
Grace Haines Hillman, b. April 20th. 1809; m. Justus Good 
rich, April 8th, 1825. They had six children : 

LOfC. 



]UII THE HILLMAN FAMILY (HADDONFIELD BRANCH). 

George W. Goodrich (7), b. Nov. 29th, 1831. 

James l>. Goodrich (7), b. Sept. 7th, 1833; d. Nov. 15th, 1834. 

Margretta \. Goodrich (7), b. Feb. 9th, 1836; d. Sept. 10th. 1840. 

Daniel II. Goodrich (7), l>. Oct. 14th, 1837. 

Urabella n. Goodrich (7), b. Jan. L8th, ix39. 

Martha \iin Goodrich (7), b. July 18th, 1840; d. Aug. 4th, L844. 

In [898 the author had a letter from Mrs. J. J. Gray, nee 
Belle Goodrich. She was daughter of Jane Hillman Goodrich. 
She stated as 1" 1 '11' >ws : 

"l have the family Bible of my grandfather. Daniel Hillman, the 
record of which begins with his marriage. Mj mother, Mrs. Cray, nee 
Jane Hillman, her brother George Hillman, and myself visited my 
greal grandmother Hillman in L854. She then lived with her youngosl 

son, <; ge Hillman on an island in the Schuylkill River, nearly 

opposite Chester, Pa. This was in October, and grandmother died in 
the following December, nearly 98 years old. Her husband's name 
was Samuel, and he fought in the Revolutionary War, as staled in an 
official paper in my possession. My grandfather lived in New Jersey, 
when his oldesl son was only 1 1; years old, and the family settled in 
Kentucky SO thai we know very little of our Hillman kin." 

Mrs. Gray's address at that time was 421 Graham St., Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

Martha Hillman (6), daughter of Joseph Hillman (5), b. 
; m. Brush. 

Hannah Hillman (6), daughter of Joseph Hillman (5), b. 
; m. Piersol. 



Sarah Crawford Hillman (6), daughter of Samuel (5), 1>. 
Kirkwood, N. J., 18 — ; unmarried in 1898. 

James Hillman (6), son of Daniel (5), and Grace Haines 
Hillman; b. Jan. 18U1, 1812: d. July 2Qth. 1833, age 21 years, 

months. 

George Washington Hillman (6), son of Daniel and Grace 
Haines Hillman; b. July 28th, 1X14. 

Charles Ellis Hillman (6), son of Daniel and Grace Haines 

1 lillnian, 1>. Sept. 5th, 1817. 

Charles Levitte Hillman (7), son of Samuel Hillman (6), 1'. 
l ; eh. 1st, 185.), Camden, X. ].; m. Christina Lansing Dunn. 
Jan. 20th, 1821, Phildelphia, Pa. She was b. New Brunswick. 
N. J., Jan. 28th, 1863. They had one child at the time this data 
was furnished March 29th, 1898. On the above date, Charles 
Hillman was an architect in Philadelphia. His office was in 
the Provident Building. He appeared industrious, and pros- 
perous. The author met, and talked with him in .March, 1898. 



POSTERITY OF SAMUEL, HILLMAX (6). 101 

Benjamin R. Hillman (7), son of Samuel (6), b. Haddon- 
field, N. J., Dec. 29th, 1844; m. Newark, X. J., NTov. 30th, 1S71 
to Louisa C. Andruss. She was b. Newark, N. J., May 17th. 
1849. They had two children. One died May 2nd, 1898. 

May 18th, 1898, Benjamin R. Hillman wrote to the author 
as follows : 

"The information you received from Mrs. R. S. Evans was thai 
which you asked me for. I filled in the blank as far as 1 definitely 
could, and sent it to her, so she could fill in the rest, and forward to 
you. What she don't know about our branch of the New Jersey llill- 
mans ain't worth looking for. I am glad to have been the means of 
aiding you." 

Reiner C. Hillman (8), son of Benjamin R. Hillman (7), b. Cam- 
den, X. J., Oct. 21st, 1873; d. Philadelphia, Pa., April 11th, 1890. 

Agnes Hillman (8), daughter of Benjamin R. Hillman (7). b. 
Philadelphia, Pa.. Oct. 27th. 1872. 

Letter May 19th, 1898 from Mr. T. T. Hillman of the First 
National Bank, Birmingham, Ala., of which the following is a 
copy : 

Birmingham. Ala., May 19th, 1S9S. 
H. W. Hillman, Esq., 

Schenectady, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: — 

Your letter requesting me to send you some information in regard 
to the Hillmans came to hand sometime ago. Enclosed herewith I 
hand you a rough sketch made out by a friend of mine from some 
memoranda and data that I gave him. It is correct as far as it goes. 
If there is anything further that you desire after reading this over, let 
me know and I will try and get it for you. 

I received a letter from Mr. Daniel Hillman of Nashville request- 
ing me to write you. His father was C. E. Hillman. No particul u 
memorandum made about him. but his family could be given if desire I. 

Yours respectfully, 

(Signed) T. T. HILLMAX. 

C. E. Hillman is my father's brother, son of Daniel Hillman as 
shown on list. 

. '1'. T. H. 

The data referred to is given below, and il will be noted thai 

these Hillmans are descended from the Haddonfield, X. J.. 

branch. 

IilST HTXL3L\N FAMILY, ETC. 

No. 1. Samuel Hillman, was in New Jersey State .Militia during 
the Revolutionary War; was in Capt. Richard Chusman's Company of 
Light Horse in the First Battalion, Gloucester County Militia; also in 
Capt. John Stokes' Company, Second Battalion, same county; also in 
Capt. Franklin Davenport's Company of Artillery attached to Gen. 
Silas Newcomb's Brigade of New Jersey Militia; also in Capt. Samuel 
Hugg's Western Company of Artillery of New Jersey State Troops. 
He was father of Daniel Hillman, Sr., James C. Hillman of Trent 



102 THE HILL.MAM FAMILY (HADDOXFI KLD BRANCH). 

X. J., can give information about Samuel Hillman, and those back of 
him. He says they settled first in imm l Camden Co., X. J.. 1693; says 
there is a book published by Judge John Clement, giving a history <»f 
the original Hillmans who settled in Gloucester Co., N. J., etc. 

No. 2. Daniel Hillman, Sr., was born in New Jersey, Oct. 25th, 
1782; died Oct. 1831 in Buckville, Alabama. Grace Hillman. wife of 
Daniel Hillman, St.. was born March 2d, 177::: died July 12th, 1826. 
Their children were: 

Daniel llilinian. Jr. 
George \Y. Hillman. 

•lane Hillman. (only daughter), 
Charles I*:. Hillman. 
.lames Hillman. 

Could give information about George W., Jane, Charles E. a 
.la mes, it' desired. 

No. 3. Daniel Hillman, Sr., (my father) was born Feb. 3rd, 1807, 
in New Jersey; died Jan. 3rd, 1885 in Hopkinsville, Ky. Daniel Hill- 
man, Sr., was married to Ann J. Marable a1 Escape, Montgomery Co., 
Tenn., April 16th, 1840. Ann J. Marable, wife of Daniel Hillman. was 
born ;ii Escape, Montgomery Co.. Tenn., Feb. 17th, 181S; died at 
Nashville, Tenn., April 1st, 1862. Their children were: 

John II. Hillman. now living in Pittsburg, Pa. 
Thomas II. Hillman. now living in Birmingham, Ala. 
\nn P. Hillman. now Mrs. E. N. Franklin, living- in Galtalin, Tenn. 
Grace C. Hillman. now Mrs. David C. Scales, living in Nashville, 

Tenn. 

Daniel Hillman, Sr., married his second wife, Mary A. Gentry, at 
Nashville, Tenn.. Oct. 16th, 1865. Mary A. Gentry, second wife of 
Daniel Hillman, Sr., was born in Summer Co., Tenn., Aug. 5th. 1S40. 
Their children were: 

Daniel Hillman (now dead). 

Miiuleth I*. (.. Hillman. now living in Birmingham, Ala. 
.lames II. Hillman. now member Co. C, Sixth Reg. U. S. Heavy 
Artillery. 

Bellfield <\ llilinian (now dead). 



CHAPTER XIII. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMAXS. 



Hodge's History of Indian Wars of New England from 

1 600- 1 67 7: 

SOLDIERS IN KING PHILLIPS" WAR. 

Among the names of those who were credited with military 
service under Capt. Mosely in June and July, 1675 at Alt. 
Hope, — Josiah Hillman. 

Another list Jan. 25th, 1676 gives name of Josias Hillman. 

LIST OF HILLMANS IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

Abner Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. 
Enlisted Jan. 18th, 1776; service to Nov. 21st, 1776; 10 months, 
4 days. Company stationed at Martha's Vineyard for defense 
of Sea Coast. 

Abner Hillman, private in Capt. Nathaniel Hammond's 
Company, Ft. Plymouth Reg. commanded by Lieut. White. 
Enlisted July 30th, 1780; service 9 days. Stationed at Rhode 
Island on an alarm. 

Benjamin Hillman, private in Capt. Leslie's Compan\ . 
Enlisted July 28th, 1776; service to Sept. 30th, 1776; 2 months, 
2 days. Company stationed at Martha's Vineyard for defense 
of Sea Coast. 

Daniel Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. 
Enlisted Jan. 18th, 1776; service to June 1st, 1776; 4 months, 
14 days. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for defense of Sea 
Coast. Also same company service between June 1st. 177'' 
and Sept. 1st, 1776; 1 month, 2 days. Company stationed at 
Martha's Vineyard for Sea Coast defense. 

David Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith'- Company. 
Enlisted Jan. 18th, 1776; service to Nov. 21st, 177'": 10 month-. 
4 days. Company stationed Martha's Vineyard for Sea Coast 
denfense. 

George Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith- Company. 
Enlisted Jan. 18th, 1776; service to Nov. 21st, 177' >; 10 month-, 



10 I Till: II I 1. 1. MAN FAMILY. 

4 days. Company stationed Martha's Vineyard, for Sea Coa^t 
defensi 

Gersham Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Com- 
pany; service between June isi. 177''. and Sept. 1st, 1776; 2 
months, 25 days. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for Sea 
Coast defense. Also same company, service from Sept. est, 
177'. to Nov. 21st, 177'': -' months, 20 days. Stationed at 
Martha's Vineyard, Sea Coast defense. 

Jonathan Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Com- 
pany. Enlisted Jan. 1 8th, 1770; service to June 1st. 1770; 4 
months, 14 days. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for Sea 
Coasl defense. Also service between June 1st, 1776 and Sept. 
est, 1770:2 months, 11 days. Statioiu-d at Martha's Vineyard 
for Sea G >as1 defense. 

Lot Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. 
Enlisted Jan. [8th, \.yy6; service to Nov. 21st, 1776; 10 months, 
4 days. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for Sea Coast defense. 

Peleg Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. 
Enlisted Jan. 18th, 177'': service to Nov. 21st, 1776: 10 months, 
4 days. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for Sea Coast 
defense. 

Thomas Hillman, private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company. 
Service between June 1st, 1776, and Sept. 1st, 1776; 1 month. 
27 day-. Stationed at Martha's Vineyard, for Sea Coast 
defense. Also, same company service from Sept. 1st. 1776 to 
Nov. 2ist, 177'': 2 months, 20 days. Stationed at Martha's 
Vineyard for Sea Coast defense. 

Timothy Hillman, private in Capt Smith's Company ; service 
from Sept. 1st. 1770 to Nov. 2i st, 1770; 2 months, 20 days. 
Stationed at Martha's Vineyard for Sea Coast defense. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMANS. 105 

RECORDS OF BIRTHS IN THE HILLMAN FAMILY 

AT CHILMARK, MASS. 

Taken from Official Records at Albany State Library. In 
the original records the name was spelled with one T ; also 
spelled 'Helman' and 'Hilliams'. 

Arnal Hillman, child of Richard and Jane, b. Jan. 21st, 1781. 

Asabel Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah, b. July 28th, 1776. 

Benjamin Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah, b. April 21st, 

1793- 

Beriah Hillman, child of Richard and Jane, b. March 15th, 

1776. 

Beriah T. Hillman, child of Owen Jr., and Charlotte, b: Jan. 

28th, 1843. 

Betsey Chase Hillman, child of Moses and Lydia, b. April 
5 th, 1806. 

Caroline W. Hillman, child of Owen Jr., and Charlotte, b. 
Jan. 12th, 1832. 

Charlotte J. Hillman, child of Owen Jr., and Charlotte, b. 
May 17th, 1846. 

Charlotte Tilton Hillman, b. June 8th, 1804. 

Clarissa Hillman, (widow of Samuel Nickerson) b. Oct. 
26th, 1805. 

Daniel Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah, b. May 23rd. 

1772. 

David Hillman, child of Benjamin and Mary, b. Nov. 15th, 

1778. 

Eliphlat Hillman, child of Richard and Jane, b. Feb. 20th. 

1786. 

Fanny Hillman, child of Moses and Lydia, b. Jan. 5 1 1 1 . [801. 

Francis B. T. Hillman, child of Owen Jr., and Charlotte, b. 
Jan. 9th, 1839. 

Gersham Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. April 3rd, 

1760. 
Ichabod Hillman, b. March 7th, 1773. 
Isaiah Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca, b. June 2nd, 

1771. 
James Hillman, child of Rebecca and Robert, b. Aug. 15th, 

1781. 

Jane Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. June 7th, [765. 
Jane Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah, b. Feb. nth, 1779. 



lOti Til i: III 1. 1. MAX FAMILY. 

Jirah Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. Oct. 30th. 

Jirah Hillman, child of Benjamin and Mary, b. Oct. 31st. 

I783- 

Jireh Hillman, child of Moses and Lydia. b. April 2nd. [797. 
Jonathan Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. Aug. 17th. 
'754. 
Jonathan Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. Sept. 6th, 

1 757- 

Jonathan Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca, b. Aug. 
i6th, [783. 

Jonathan Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah, b. June 8th, 
1 784. 

Lydia Hillman, child of Moses and Lydia, b. Dec. 3rd. [804. 

Mary Hillman, child of Richard and Jane, b. July 9th, 1 784. 

Matty Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah. b. April [6th 
1789. 

Moses Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. Sept. 4th. 
1771. 

Owen Jr., 1>. Jan. 9th, 1804. 

Pardon Hillman, son of Elizabeth Hillman. h. Oct. 15th 
i 7 Z 7 . 

Parnell Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. July 29th, 
1767. 

Prince Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca, b. |une "Hh. 
^771- 

Prudence Hillman, child of .Moses and Lydia, 1). fan. 22nd, 
1799. 

Rebecca Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca, b. July 20th 
1785- 

Robert Hillman, child of Benjamin and Love Hillman, b. 
March 30th, 1747. 

Robert Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca, b. Inne t6th, 

' 779- 

Samuel Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba, b. Sept. jrd, 
1 769. 

Shadrach Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah. b. Nov. 8th, 
1707. 

Susanna Hillman, child of wife of P.enjamin S. Tilton ; b. 
June 7th, 1797. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILL.MANS. 107 

Thankfull Hillman, child of Richard and Jane; b. July 23rd. 
1/78. 

Tristam Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba; b. July 16th, 

1752. 

Tristam Hillman, child of Moses and Lydia ; b. Aug". 14th. 

1795- 

Urial Hillman, child of Robert and Rebecca; b. Feb. 3rd. 

1/75- 

Warren T. Hillman, child of Owen Jr. and Charlotte ; b. 
Sept. 15th, 1 84 1. 

William Hillman, child of Benjamin and Mary; b. July 14th, 

1777- 

Zachariah Hillman, son of Owen and Charlotte, b. Oct. 28th, 

1844. 

Zachariah Hillman, b. Oct. 16th, 1845. 

Zebulon Hillman, child of Ezra and Zerniah ; b. April 4th, 
1786. 

, son of Moses; b. Sept. 7th, 1808. 

, son of Owen, Jr. and Charlotte; b. Nov. 3rd, 

1832. 

, daughter of Owen Jr. and Charlotte ; b. Jan. 

1 6th, 1836. 

, son of Owen Jr. and Charlotte ; b. Feb. 27th, 

1843- 

Thurston Hillman, child of Samuel and Pheba; b. - 

1 6th, 1752. 



108 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

MARRIAGES IN THE HILLMAN FAMILY— CHIL- 
MARK, MASS. RECORDS. 

Abigail Hillman and Rufus II. Davis, [ntentions Sept. 
26th, 1840. 

Ann Hillman and John Bassett, .March 171I1, [776. 

Bathsheba Hillman and Francis \. Luce, Nov. 151I1. [831. 

Celinda Hillman and Capt. Edwin A. Luce, July [6th, [837. 

Clarissa Hillman and Samuel Nicholson, May 17th. [829. 

Deborah Hillman and Lot Norton, Dec. 4th, 1777. 

Edwin and Lydia Hillman, Dec. 9th, 1787. 

Eliza Hillman and Ira !•*. Luce, March 1st, 1830. 

Elizabeth Hillman and Japhet Turner, April 21st. [763. 

Eunice Hillman and Robert Look, May 30th. 1770. 

Fear Hillman and Jeremiah Mayhew, April 7th, 1770. 

Hannah Hillman and John Peas, Feb. 22nd, 1776. 

Harriet X. Hillman, daughter of Jirah and Nancy, and 
Moses S. Vincent, March 20th. 1846. 

Henry Hillman and Sarah Mayhew, Dec. 9th, 1790. 

Isaiah Hillman and Sarah Lumber! Intentions Jan. 3rd. 

1846. 

Jane Hillman and Walter Boardman, Dec. 4th. 1790. 

Jane X. Hillman and ( )tns Smith, Oct. 30th, 1833. 

Lois Hillman and Daniel Look, Oct. 7th, 1804. 

Lot Hillman and Lovey Luce, June 20th, 1780. 

Love Hillman of New Bedford, and Robert Hillman, Jr. 
Intentions Nov. 9th, 1807. 

Lydia Hillman in the family of Nicholson, Sept. 21st. [780. 

Lydia Hillman and Edward Hillman, Dec. 9th, 17S7. 

Martha Hillman and Joseph Chase, Nov. 20th. 1772. 

Mary X. Hillman and Shubael Norton, Feb. 21st, 1828. 

Moses Hillman and Lydia Chase, Sept. nth, [794. 

Nancy and Prince Hillman, July [8th, 1801. 

Mrs. Nancy and Samuel Look, Jr. Intentions March 6th, 

1 808. 

Mrs. Ollie Hillman and Benjamin Hammett, \hc. [st, 1701. 
Owen Hillman and ( )llie Norton, Aug. 20th, 1705. 
Owen Hillman, Jr., and Charlotte Tilton, June [6th, 1828. 
Parnell Hillman and Thomas Humbert. Aug. 30th. 1701. 
Prince and Nancy Hillman, July 18th, 1801. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILL.MANS. 109 

Prudence Hillman and Abraham Knowles, July 9th, 1807. 

Rebecca and Robert Hillman, May nth, 1769. 

Richard Hillman and Jane Thompson, July 3rd, 1775. 

Robert Hillman and Love Hillman. Intentions Nov. 9th, 
1807. 

Ruth and Thomas Thorp, March 17th, 1768. 

Sarah Hillman and John Flanders, Jan. 27th, 1769. 

Shadrach Hillman and Prudence Butler, March 20th, 1794. 

Silas Hillman. Jr. and Sukie Jones, Nov. 21st, 1798. 

Silas Hillman and Mary B. Norton, Oct. 29th, 1835. 

Stephen Hillman and Bathsheba Skiff, April 24th, 1806. 

Susannah Hillman and Benjamin Skiff, Jr., Dec. 12th, 1765. 

Susanna Hillman and Benjamin S. Tilton, Oct. 24th, 1822. 

\Y bitten Hillman and Olive Roche, Sept. 2nd, 1784 in Tis- 
bury, Mass. 

Zerviah Hillman and John Cottle, Jan. 6th, 1731. 

The following names are spelled 'Hilman': 
Ezra Hilman and Zerviah Jones, Dec. 4th, 1766. 
Jean Hilman and Eben Jones, Sept. 21st, 1733. 
Jonathan Hilman and Keziah Luce, June 29th, 174c;. 
Martha Hilman and Shobal Claghorn, Jan. 7th, 174S. 
Mary Hilman and Jonathan Hammett, Oct. 25th, 1744. 
Mehetable Hilman and John Merry, 
Rhoda Hilman and Malachi Merry, Jan. 26th 1766. 
Silas Hilman and Susannah Mayhew, Dec. 4th. 1755. 



110 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

DEATHS IN THE HILLMAN FAMILY— CHILMARK, 

MASS. RECORDS. 

James llillman. --nn of James and Dinah. Aug. 20th, 1798. 
age [9. < '<ra\ est< »ne record. 

James llillman. Aug. <;th, 1819, age 38. Gravestone record. 

Maria llillman. May [8th, 1841. age 38. 

Capt. Owen llillman. April 13th, 1835. a S e 7° years, 4 
months, 9 da) s. 

\rdcn llillman, Oct. 29th, 1807. 

Pheba Hillman, July 20th, 1829, age 100 years, 2 months, [6 

days. . 

Polly, widow of Capt. Owen Hillman. Feb. 1st. 1840. age 65. 

Rebecca, widow of Capt. Robert Hillman, Oct. 31st, 1815, 
age 70 years, 3 months, 11 days. 

Capt. Robert Hillman, Oct. 20th, 1824. 

Samuel Hillman, Jan. 27th. 1801, age 69. 

Stephen llillman. May 9th, 1826, age 57. 

Susanna, wife of Silas Hillman, Oct. 26th, 1834, age 55. 

Zerviah Hillman, Feb. 1842, age 94. 

— , son of Owen Jr. and Charlotte, Nov. 3rd, 1832. 
— , daughter of Owen Jr. and Charlotte, Feb. 12th, 
1836. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMANS. Ill 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

In 1898, the author had a letter from Airs. Sarah M. Hillman 
Jones, 279 Shiplet St.. San Francisco, Cal. She is the daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Abigail Hillman. The following information was 
furnished : 

Abigail Dibble, b. Town of Fulton, Schoharie, N. Y., Feb. 

18th, 1822; m. Isaac Hillman, Troy, N. Y., Jan. 13th, 1853, by 

Rev. E. Guss. They had the following children : 

Henry S. Hillman, b. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 10th, 1854; drowned, 
Eay of San Francisco, April 15th, 1854. 

Abbie Amanda Hillman, b. San Francisco, Cal., May 16th, 1855; m. 
George W. Studley, San Francisco, Nov. 2 8th, 1872. 

Isaac Noah Hillman, ta. San Jose, Cal., Sept. 3rd, 1856; d. San 
Jose, Cal., April 24th, 1857. 

Sarah Maria Hillman, b. San Jose, Cal., Nov. 2 9th, 1858; m. Henry 
Z. Jones, San Francisco, Cal., March 29th, 1887. 

Celinda Jane Hillman. b. San Jose, Cal., Dec. 15th, 1859; m. 
Charles E. Burton, July 18th, 1882. 

John Reuben Hillman, b. San Jose, Cal., Nov. 9th, 1860; m. Lillie 
Folger, San Francisco, Dec. 3rd, 18 85. 

Catherine Ann Hillman, b. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 27th, 1862; d. 
San Francisco, Cal., June 5th, 1863. 

Name of Abigail Dibble's father, Noah D. ; born New York 

State, 1788; died Schoharie County, N. Y., July 6th, 1864. 

Name of her mother, Abigail Crippen ; born New York State, 

March 3rd, 1790; died Schoharie County, N. Y., Dec. 12th, 

1869. They were married in New York State 1808. 

Isaac Hillman's grandfather, Isaac Hillman, was born in 

San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 20th, 1779. Married first wife, 

Jerusha Sweet. They had three children : 

Mary Knight Hillman, 
Joseph Hillman, 
Jerusha Hillman. 

Name second wife, Nancy Birdsall. They had no children. 

Mrs. Sarah M. Hillman Jones further writes : 

"My father, Isaac Hillman, several years before his death, wrote 
not only a Genealogical Record of himself and family, as Car as he 
knew it, but also a full diary of his life, and sent it to my half brother 
in Troy, N. Y. — Mr, Joseph Hillman. who thereafter compiled a greater 
number of names and facts, all of which his widow, Mrs. Ordelia Hill- 
man of Troy, N. Y., now has in her possession, although it is to go to 
my brother, Jonathan R. Hillman, in this city, when she sees fit to dis- 
pose of it. 

Nancy Birdsall was the widow of Major General Birdsall. and 
had three children by him, James, Zebalon, Martha, when she mar- 
ried Isaac Hillman. 



1 1 '1 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

John Hillman and Lillie Folger Hillman had one boy, John Ed- 
ward, born San Francisco, Cal., May 13th, 1887. 

. Millie A. Hillman and George W. Studley had two children: 

George Howard Studley, b. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 25th. 1874; 
m. Altai lie Wolf at Fruitvale, Cal., Nov. 8th, 1894. b. Nov. 29th, 
L879, Fruitvale, Cal. They had two children: George McClish stud- 
ley, b. Boston, Mass.. .Ian. c.th. 1X96. Altai I >> Wolf Studley, b. Feb. 
3rd, 1X97. Hostoii. Mass. 

The second child of Abbie A. Hillman and George W. Studley was: 
Ruby Willard Studley. b. Saratoga, Cal., Jan. 29th, 1876. 

All of the above information is very interesting, and the 

author is much indebted to Mrs. Jones of San Francisco, Cal., 

for the detailed data. 

Mrs. Sarah M. Hillman and Henry Z. Jones had one daugh- 
ter, Abbie Haskel Jones, born San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 1.4th. 
1 888. 

The children of Celinda Jane Hillman and Charles E. Bur- 
t< in were as follows : 

Charles Edgar Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 3rd, 1883. 

Arthur Hillman Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 9th, 1885. 

Jennie Haskol Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 9th, 1886. 

Helen Abbie Burton, b. San Franoisco, Cal., May 25th, 1888. 

Alice Irene Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 9th, 1890. 

George Oscar Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., April 30th, 1891. 

Lillian Ruth Burton, b. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 9th, 1897. 
Mrs. Sarah M. Hillman Jones further writes that the old 
family name was "Bergmann." It was a German name, and 
'in account of its being difficult to pronounce by an English 
tongue, her father, his sister Elizabeth and Dr. John 
Hillman took the name of "Hillman," which is the translation 
of the German name, "Berg" being a small mountain, or hill. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMANS. 113 

TISBURY TOWN RECORDS. 

March 26th, 1898, the author received from Win. F. Swift, 
Jr., Town Clerk, Tisbury, Mass., the following data, taken 
from the Town Records. 

"Benjamin Hillman and Abigail Mantor were married together on 
ye 4th day of February A. I). 1761. 

June 20th, 1780, married Lot Hillman of Cliilni.uk, to Lovey Luce 
of Tisbury. 

Elijah Hillman to Charlotte Coffin, Aug. the 17th. 

Whitten Hillman. Chilmark. to Olive Roche, Sept. Ihe 2nd, 1784. 

Silas Hillman to Eunice Look. March ye 18th, 1779. 

Peleg Hillman to Mary Dagett, May 13th, 1779. 

Nov. ye 16th, Jonathan Hillman was married to Sarah Harnett, 
1780. 

In 1898, Beriah T. Hillman of Edgartown, Mass., furnished 
the author with the following- interesting matter: 

"Beriah T. Hillman's father (Owen) had the following children: 
Francis, Caroline, Warren, Beriah, Zachariah and Charlotte. Francis 
and Zachariah both died young (i. e.) about 19 or 20. Caroline mar- 
ried Joseph Nickerson and she had three children, Frank, Hepsie and 
Nellie. Caroline is dead. The children are married. Frank married 
Phoebe Adams and he has three children. Nellie married James May- 
hew, and she has one child, named Helen. Hepsie married Freeman 
Allen Look and they have one child. Charlotte married John W. 
Mayhew, and they had the following children: Harold, Evelyn, 
Emma, Inez. Clara and John. Harold is in the School of Technology 
at Boston; Evelyn married James Adams who lives in Chilmark. They 
have no children. Emma is a teacher at Woonsocket, Rhode Island. 
and Inez is in the State Normal School at Inez, Mass. Clara is with 
her sister, a young girl at school. John is with Beriah, also Emma. 
Charlotte is dead, also the father. 

Beriah's brother Warren married Anna C. Burk, of St. Louis, Mo. 
At the time he married he was a teacher in Washington University ami 
afterwards graduated from the medical department there and practiced 
in St. Louis. He is now dead. His widow is living on the Island now 
(Martha's Vineyard) and has a daughter in the Boston University in 
the preparatory department. 

Beriah T. Hillman married Abbie B. Pierce, and they have the 
following children: Anna, Horace, Fannie, Arthur. Walter and Char- 
lotte. 

Horace is married to Henrietta Norton. They have one child and 
live in Edgartown. Child's name is Mildred. Anna married Henry E. 
Cottell, who is a lawyer and lives at Brookfield, Mass. They have two 
children, Ethel and Willis. Fannie married William P. Howard. They 
have no children. They live at Mattapoissett. Arthur is in the hank 
at Edgartown. W T alter has just graduated from Tabor Academy at 
Marion, Mass." 

The following was taken from the Genealogy of the Cleve- 
land Family : 

Son of Thomas Hillman, bom Vineyard Havn, Mass.: man 
Rebecca D. Cleveland; born Aug. 27th, 1853. They had three childn 
She was the daughter of George Gibbons Cleveland, and Lydia Davis 
Smith. 

Addie Hillman, born Michigan, June 29th, 1863; daughter of l 
Fayette and Elizabeth Hillman, 



114 THE HILL. MAX FAMILY. 

Elizabeth Hillman, married Jan. 1st. 1882 to Deloss W. Cleveland; 
born Si pt. 5th, 1849, Farmersville, X. Y.; son of Lutius and Sarah M . 
Cady Cleveland. Reside at Farmersville, X. Y. 

William Hillman, s >f LaFayette and Elizabeth Hillman; mar- 
ried Oct. 1853, Sarah Jane Cleveland; bom May 14th, 1835, Owego, X. 
v , died l >ec. 6th, 1881. 

Emma, daughter <>f Lutiu.s and Sarah M. Cady Cleveland, had 
child Emma, boi n May 1 9th, 1 s56. 

Caroline Wentworth Hillman, West Tisbury, Mass.; married Jos- 
eph I'ak.-r Xickerson. Had daughter Hepsie Ashley Xiekerson; born 
Wi si Tisbury, .Ian. 8th, l 857. 

Jemima Hillman of Martha's Vineyard, died Winchester, Mass.. 
L866. Lived in both Conway and Charlemont, Mass.; married about 
1809, Calvin Keyes; burn Dee. 6th. 1 7 s r. ; died Charlemont, Mass.. 1874. 
ll- was sun of Calvin and Reliance Tolman Keyes of Conway. Mass. 

From the Doty-Doten Family, Vol. 2. page 520: 

Ann Maria Hillman, married Dec. 2nd. 1840. at Macedon Centre, 
X. Y.. Barnel Burtis Johnston; born Clinton, X. Y., Sept. 29th, 1814. 
Sin was his first wife He was the son of John and Hannah Ann Doty 
Johnston. 

Prom the Genealogy of the Abbott Family, page 52: 

Catherine Hillman. married Daniel Abbott. He was born Sept. 
25th, 1778; died . 1824. 

From the Genealogy of tin.' Adams Family, published Rut- 
land, Vt.. [898, page 381 : 

J. J. Hillman, Philadelphia, married Jennie A. Meachan; born 
Moraga Valley, Cal., Aug-. 12th. 1863. She was daughter of David K. 
Meachan and Sophronia H. Adams. 

From the Genealogy of the Cutler Family, page 452: 

Rebecca Hillman, daughter of Wm. Hillman of Albany, X. Y. ; 
married July 2 1st, 1850 Timothy Roekwood Cutler; born May 3rd, 
L822, Holliston, Mass. She was his first wife. Died Dec. 21st, 1853. 
He was the son of Martin and Sophia Roekwood Cutler. 

Mary Hillman. daughter of William, and sister of Rebeeea. mar- 
red Timothy Roekwood Cutler, being his second wife. He was an 
architect in New Y'ork City. 

From the Genealogy of the Hammond Family, pages 275 

and 302 : 

Barron Hillman. married Sarah Hammond; born Swanzey. N. H., 
Nov. ltth. 17x:i: died Coldwells Mannor. Canada, Jan. 30th, 1840. She 
was daughter of Lieut. Isaac and Mehitable Prime Hammond. Their 
children were: 

Emily, 

Sarah. 1>. Aug. 27th, 1825, Coldwells Mannor, Canada: d. Rouses 
Point. X. Y., Dec. 1892; m. Robert Ferguson, b. Montreal, Canada, 
May 5th, 1823; d. Rouses Point, N. Y., Dec. 26th. 1892. They had 
two children: 

From the Genealogy of old families. Concord, Mass., 1863: 

Francis Hillman, born 1852; died 1884; married Jan. 15th, 1870 
Adelia Emeline Ballard; born Charlemont. Mass.. Sept. 30th, 1S58; 
daughter of Xatlian H. and Adelia Rice Ballard. They had daughter 
Mabel Adelia. born Charlemont. Mass.. Aug. 12th, 1881. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMANS. 115 

From the History of Leeds, Me., page 338: 

Mary P. Hillman, and Thomas Day married; intentions published 
Leeds, Me., Aug. 29th, 1838. 

From James W. Hillman, Northampton, Mass., the follow- 
ing data was sent to the author, May 15th, 1905: 

Alexander Hillman, born in Boston, July 18th, 1803; Eve Hillman, 
his wife, born March 15th, 1805. Children of Alexander and Eve: 
David, b. Jan. 12th, 1827; Alexander, Jr., h. Feb. 10th, 1829; Ruth A. 
b. April 10th, 1831; Joseph, b. Feb. 11th, 1S33; Margarite Eve, b. Jan. 
23rd, 1835; John V., b. Feb. 21st, 1857; Moses, b. Jan. 24th, 1839. 

The children of David Hillman and wife Julia, who was 
born Feb. 12th, 1836, are as follows: 
Alexander, b. May 22nd, 18 53. 
Mary E., b. March 3rd, 1854. 

The children of Alexander Hillman, Jr., and his wife, 

Armena, born Jan. 24th, 1857, are: 

Cornelia, b. May 23rd, 18 74. 
Alexander, Jr.. b. May 17th, 1876. 
Edward, b. Feb. 20th, 1878. 
John, b. July 24th 4 1879. 
Medos, b. Jan. 6th, 1882. 

All the above, with the exception of Alexander Sr., and his 
wife, were born in Providence, Quebec. There was a large 
family of Alexander Jr.'s Great Grandfather, that moved into 
Canada, and then separated; some coming into the States, and 
some drifting into other places; but Alexander Jr., could give 
me no back data beyond his grandfather. 

COLONEL HILLMAN OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. 

The author met J. W. Hillman, Dentist, in Akron, Ohio, in 
1899, and talked with him at length regarding the Hillmans. 
On January 3rd, 1900, he kindly sent to me the following data 
taken from the History of Summit County, Ohio, in turn, from 
Howes' Collections, or Howes' Annals, relating to Col. Hill- 
man. The author also wishes to state that while visiting 
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1899, he learned that there is a street 
called Hillman St., and named after Col. Hillman. 

"One of the earliest settlements made in the Western Reserve, an. I 
by some claimed as the first therein, was made on the sight of Youngs- 
town, Mahoming Co., by a Mr. Young, (afterward a judge) in the Sum- 
mer of 1796. During this Summer before the settlement at Cuyahoga 
and Conneaut, were made, Mr. Young and Mr. Wilcott, proprietors of 
a township of land in N. E. Ohio, came to their possession and !>• s$ 
the survey of their land. 



L16 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

. I u > t when they came is not known. They were found here by 
Col. James Hillman then a trader in th< employ of Duncan & Wilson 
if I'M 1 burg, who had been forwarding goods across the country by 
pack-saddle horses since L786, to the mouth of the Cuyahoga; thence 
to b ped "ii tlie Schooner Mackinaw to Detroit. Col. Hillman gen- 

charge of all these caravans, consisting sometimes of ninetj 
horses, and ten men. They commonly crossed the big Beaver, four 
miles below the mouth of the Shenango; thence up the left bank of 
the Mi ed by Indians, Mahoni, signifying "lick" or "at 

the lick" — crossing it aboul three miles below the site of Youngs- 
town; then by the way of the Salt Springs over the sites of Milton and 

Ravenna, crossing the i a1 the ith of Breakneck, a 

again al the mouth of 'linkers Creek; then down the river to its 
mouth < where thej had a log hut, in which to store their goods. 

'This hut was there- when the surveyors came; but at the time 
unoccupied. A1 the mouth of Tinkers Creek, were a few log- huts built 
by the Moravian Missionaries. 

In 1788, Col. Hillman settled at Beavertown, where Duncan & 
Wilson had a store for the purpose of trading with the Indians. Hi 
went hack to Pittsburg soon alter, owing to the Indian war, and 
rema ined I here till its close. 

In L796, when returning from one of his trading expeditions alone 
in his canoe, down the Mahoming River, he discovered a smoke on the 
hank mar the present town of Youngstown, and on going to the spot 
found Mr. Young and Mr. Wblcott. A part of Col. Hillman's cargo 
consisted of whiskey, a gallon or so of which he still had. The price 
of lire water was then $1.00 per quart in the currency pf the country, 
a deerskin being legal tender for $1.00 and a doe skin for 50 cents. 
Mr. Young proposed purchasing a quarl and having a frolic on its eon- 
tents during the evening, and insisted on paying Hillman the custom- 
ary price. Hillman urged that inasmuch as they were strangers in 
the country, civility required him to furnish the means for the enter- 
tainment. Young, however, insisted, and taking the deerskin used for 
his bed,— the only one he had paid for his whiskey. Hillman 
remained a few days, when they accompanied him to Beavertown to 
celebrate the 1th, and all returned to Youngstown, and Hillman 
erected a cabin. 

It is not certain that they remained here at this time." 

()n June 19th, [899, Charles I'. Hillman, then residing at 
Santiago, Chile, S. A., wrote me as per the following cop) of 
letter : 

Santiago, Chile, s. A.., June 19th, 1899. 

11. \V. Hillman. Esq., 

!»4 1 Slate St., 

Schenectady, N. Y. 

My dear ( possible ) cousin: 

I have been for months in possession of your valued circular of 
Jan. I'.oh. 1898, in which you request data regarding the Hillman 
family, it has been a matter of annoyance to me thai 1 have tiol been 
able to satisfj you] inquiries; l have tried one method of doing some- 
thing and it has failed. I hes to suggest to yon another; but will first 
state that since the age of 19, my profession has carried me from 
place to place and the little data I have had has got strayed. 

My broth r, John Wesley Hillman. now of Hop,. Villa, East 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by his first marriage was consorted ('.'» with 

a first cousin, daughter to my Dncle George Hillman. then of New 
Orleans. After I had come to South America l heard that Uncle 
George, having a sufficiency of means, and a taste in that direction, 



.MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMANS. 117 

had gone to England, and. I believe, Inland and Scotland, and hi d 
very successfully followed up the descendants. Some years after 
taking- steamer from New York to New Orleans, with his family 
(excepting the daughter married to my brother), the vessel was lust 
with every soul on board, but one sailor, and with the vessel, went 
down all the family and other valuable papers. However, I am 
inclined to think that my brother John might be aide to give you sum, 
data which possibly you do not have. He has a family seal in his 
possession which must be very antique. I am not sure if my father, 
John, the eldest of his family, had this seal or if it came from my 
Uncle George, I think my father had it. Aly lather married in Albany, 
to Jane Ann Van Wormer, of Schoharie, her mother being a Van Loon; 
my father's children were. Catherine (x), Elizabeth, John Wesley, 
George (x) Whitfield. Charles La Fletcher, Jane Ann ixi, William 
Washington, Edwin Emmet, Arthur Constantine, and Jesse Van 
Loon, (x) 

(Those marked with an (x) joined the majority). 

After I left home, reverses induced my father to take all of the 
family still with him, to what was then "Out West.'' say Wisconsin; 
from there all have scattered to the four extremes, almost, of the 
States; one even farther; myself. A son of George. John Constantine, 
or J. Con. Hillman^ is an architect well known in Rochester. Addn 
is Cutler Building. His sisters may have something id' interest. 

My eldest brother, John W., would, I think, if you were to write 
him, be able to add something. He is 68, but quite aide to give you 
any data he may have and to keep up any correspondence, though 
an invalid, wounded in one of the Indian Risings in Oregon, in the 
early days. Hoping you will write my brother. 1 venture to retain 
your blank. Inferring them of possible interest, I add the addresses 
of my brothers: 

John W., Hope Villa_ E. Baton Rouge. Louisiana. 

W. H. Hillman, Bloomer, Wis. 

Edwin E., 1860 Reta Street, Chicago. 

Arthur C, Davisville, Cal. 

I am married to a daughter of Samuel Frost Haviland, who came 
to Chile from Peekskill in the 20's. He is of the "Haviland China" 
family; and Fred. Haviland, of New York City took in hand years 
back, a task similar to what you have in hand. I have made two visits 
to the U. S., the last in IS 96- 7. 

Most heartily wishing you success, and hoping to hear of the 
same, and of you, I am, 

Affectionately your cousin. 

CHARLES F. HILLMAN. 

p. s. — If I can get a good impression, I will enclose a copy of a 
seal smaller, but made after the design of brother John's. ( It may no, 
stand the passage of the Tropica. C. F. H. i .My brother's is larger. 

<\ F. H. 

At a recent elate, (1905) I visited Rochester, and upon careful 
investigation at the office where J. Con. Hillman had pre- 
viously located learned that he had moved from Rochester \>> 
California. It was a keen disappointment as it would la- inter- 
esting to learn ahout this branch of the Hillmans. 

Amanda Hillman, Stonington, Ky. : 111. Erasmus Darwin 
Swan. He was b. Feb. 10th, [810. 



H,S THE HILLMAN l-\\ M I I,Y. 

HILLMAN COAT OF ARMS. 

By reference to Burke's Journal, Armory of England, Scot- 
land and Wales, comprising the Registry of Armorial bear- 
ings, from the earliest to the presenl time, there will be found 
a description of the Hillman Coat of Arms. The illustration 
is not shown. It is possible that the illustration, and inscrip- 
tion might be secured by writing to England, and at moderate 
expense. 

Notice of death at Chilmark, Mass., April 28th, 1898 of 
Elizabeth Adams, wife of Josiah \V. Tilton, and daughter of 
the late Isaiah Hillman, age 60 years, n months. 23 days. 

Notice of death of Dr. Benjamin Hillman of the G. A. R. 
After a short illness of pneumonia, Dr. Hillman passed away 

at his late residence in New Bedford last week ( , 1898). 

His remains were brought to this place (Tisbury) on Friday 
night. They were met at the boat by the members of the G. 
A. 1\. and escorted by them to the corner of Beech and Main 
Sts. The body was carried to North Tisbury, the old family 
home, for interment. Dr. Hillman was the son of the late 
Capt. Hillman, and leaves a widow, one son and two daughters 
by a previous marriage. 

Record of Henry Hillman: — b. Jan. 10th, 1854; m. March 
27th, 1880 in Bremen, Germany, to Marie Timke. Record of 
five children; two of which were horn in St. Louis in 1892-95. 
Name of his father, Henry Hillman. 

Record of Davis Henry Hillman: — b. March 2nd. [856 in 
Kirchav. Wis. Had five children, horn at Chicago. Name of 
father, Ernest Wilhelm Hillman; grandfather, Carl Daniel 
I lillman. 

In the Bigelow Genealogy, Ruth Hillman is mentioned as 
having married Daniel Bigelow; 1822; they resided in Ohio. 

In the- 1'arshall Genealogy is mentioned Maria Hillman. 
married Jacob Courseii, Kingsville, Ohio. 

Marshall Coursen, son of Maria Hillman Coursen; m. hncy 
Ann Marshall. 

Samuel and Ruth Hillman West had son John who married 
Mary Maria Roberts. 

Sarah Hillman, daughter of Alexander Hillman; m. Kdwin 
I;. Maey, (second wife). She was b. South Yarmouth, Mass., 
May 28th, 1836; m. New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 8th, 1864. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMAXS. H9 

Maria Macy, m. Joseph E. Hillman, son of Joseph M. Hill- 
man, and Ruth Edwards. 

In the Chandler Genealogy is mentioned Ruth Hillman of 
Farmington, Me., who married Henry Butterfield. lie was b. 
Dunstable, Oct. 25th, 1773. She d. age 50 years, 2 months, 7 
days. 

Matilda Clark married Thomas Hillman, farmer in Farming- 
ton, Me. 

Julia Augusta Spear, b. Nov. 1830; m. Richard B. Hillman. 
Jan. 15th, 1856, Rockland, Me. 

Samuel Gray Stanton, b. April 24th, 1804; m. Mary Jane 

Hillman Sept. 2nd, 1833, at Vineyard Haven. Mass. He d. 

Sept. 9th, 1882. She was b. Aug. 10th, 1813: d. Aug. 2nd. 

1880. They had six children : 

Samuel Mason Stanton, 

Henry Clay Stanton, 

Mary Jane Stanton, 

Wm. Gray Stanton, 

Charlotte Coffin Stanton, 

George Hillman Stanton. He was b. Nov. 6th, 1S49: m. Phoebe 
Angeline Geer Aug. 17th, 1872. 

Samuel Mason Stanton, b. March 1st, 1836 in Vineyard 

Haven, Mass.; m. Adelaide J. Hillman, March 7th, [86] ; d. 

April 1st, 1887. 

Letter from Louis Hillman, 3622 Ellis Ave., Chicago, April 
2nd, 1898, in which he states he is of Jewish parentage and was 
born 1824 in Lieblos near Gelhausem, Germany. His father's 
name was Benjamin ; his mother's name Esther. 

Reference is made in the History of Hardwick, Mass., page 
398, to Stephen P. Hillman, who married Elmira Maria 
Nicholham, Dec. 4th, 1851, who had son, Joseph Hillman. horn 
April 17th, 1855 ; married Alice Gould, May 3rd, 1882. Daugh- 
ter born Nov. 25th, 1858. Charles Dexter Hillman, born Ma\ 
9th, i860. John Nicholham, born May 12th, 1804. 

Moses Hillman, b. Frederick County, Md., Dec. 29th, 1844; 
m. 1869, Baltimore, Md., to Jane Jefferson. She was b. k. 
ton Shore, Md. ; d. Boston, 1869. He married again, Celia 
Nolan. They had no children. The name of his father was 
E. G. Hillman. Mother's name, Nancy Hillman. She died 
Frederick County, Md. She was also married there. 



L20 THE HD. L.MAX FAMILY. 

Augustus Frederick Hillman, b. Holdensen 1821 ; m. Mrs. 
Mack. She d. [869. They had nine children; five were living 
in [898. They were as follows: 

Carolina Wilhelmina Hillman. b. Newburg, L858. 
<..•<)■-«• II. Hillman, b. Newburg, L862. 

Wm. Frederick Hillman, b. — , 1865. 

John Augustus Hillman, b. . 

Catherine Hillman, b . 

They were all living at Newburg, X. V., in 1898. 
Samuel Hillman, b. Montgomery County, Florida, X. Y.. 
1818; m. Elizabeth Shutes, Florida, X. Y. She was b. 1810. 
He \\ as married three timi 5. 

From Penn. Genealogies: Win. I,. Hays, b. May 2ml. 1854; 
111. Oct. 1880. Ann Ilillnian. Resided at Clinton. Pa., Beaver 
Co. 

Shourd's History of Fenwick, X. J., makes reference to S. 
R. Ilillnian. 

Maria P. Hillman, Tisbury, Mass., married Hosea Lewis, 
June 17th, 1827. 

REV. JOHN L. HILLMAN. 

The author received a letter June 20th, 1900 from Rev. John 
L. Hillman, 1731 Franklin Ave., Cojumbus, Ohio. 

lie stated that his father's name was Thomas Baker Hill- 
man, and his grandfather's name was Wm. Hillman. That he 
was born in ( )hio. The latter half of his life was spent in 
Iowa. He was one of the early settlers in Tamon County, 
lie mentions that he had always understood that they came 
from the Martha's Vineyard branch of the family. 

"A few weeks ago I was in Akron, Ohio, and mel the Rev. I>r. 
Pratt, pastor of the First Methodisl Church of that city. I found that 
m, middle name of one of the boys was Hillman. Through his 
mother, he is connected with the branch of the Martha's Vineyard 
Hillmans that went to Main.'. Dr. Pratl was until recently, a pastor 
in Lynn, .Mass. 1 perhaps ought to state thai 1 have an uncle by the 
name of John." 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMAXS. 121 

UNSETTLED PROPERTY IN ENGLAND. 

On Aug. 6th, 1890. the author received from Biddeford, Me.. 
the following notice, hy letter : 

Biddeford, Me., Box 43, Aug. 6th, '90. 
To anyone by the name of Hi 11 man: 

Information is wanted of one Capt. John Hillman, Deptford, Eng- 
land, 1825. Heirs wanted to claim unsettled property in the old 
country. 

I am correspondent for an agent in England; this case lias been 
sent to me for investigation. 

No fee is asked for this is a special case entered upon the special 
list. 

REV. W. H. CONGDON. 

The above was sent to me by Mrs. G. E. Hillman, 18 Pros- 
pect St., Charlestown, Mass. 

Theo. Bernard Lewis Hillman, b. Staro, Germany, Aug. 

22nd, 1865; m. March 8th, 1886 to Nellie Aham. She was b. 
Wheeler, Ind., March 7th, [863. She was his second wife. 
His first wife was Minna Jarend. The name of his father was 
Frederick John Hillman ; b. Little Butsin, Germany, Dec. 2nd, 
1839; d. Chicago. The name of his mother was Mary Johan- 
nah Mosse. 

Children of Isaiah Hillman : 

Rebecca Hillman, b. 18 30; sister of Martha; m. Wm. Case Mantor. 
They had no children. Still living Jan., 1898. Wm. Case Mantor, b. 
Feb. 26th, 1S15. Son of Peter and Polly Case Mantor. 

In the Genealogy of the Child Family, Albany Library, Sev- 
enth Generation, mentions Alvira Child born 1849; married 
Frederick Hillman 1876, Lima, N. Y. 

in the Genealogy of the Child Family, Albany Library, 
pages 244-779-82 will be found record of the Luces from Sixth 
Generation. 

On Jan. nth, 1899, the author received the following note 
from Mrs. H. Hillman from Ft. Worth, Texas: 

"Mr. Hilhuan < 

Dear Sir: — 

I am the second wife of Dr. Benjamin Hillman who died May 1th. 
1898; he was the son of Capt. Walter Hillman of N<utb Tisbury, .Mass. 
Probably you can obtain all necessary information concerning this 
branch of the family from Mr. Beriah T. Hillman. Attorney-at I 
Edgartown, Mass., who is a cousin of mine by Marriage. 

There is a young man here I am informed, bearing tin- same name 
as my husband — Benjamin Hillman— but not related to me. 

Respectfully 

MRS. HANNAH HILLTUAW 



L22 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

John Peter Hillman, b. April 23rd, 1867, Portland. Me.; 111. 
[sabella Lone. She was b. Montreal, July 4th. [849. They 
have 1 >ne child : 

Lucj M. Hillman. 1». Portland, Me., 1883. 

He also in. Elizabeth Weeks Bell; d. Hingham, Mass., Aug. 
29th, 1882. 

Mis father's name was Horace B. Hillman. He was born 
Portland, Me., [831. He married Trueletta S. Waldron, born 
Portland, Me., 1838; married Portland, Me., 1855; died Port- 
land, Me., 1884. 

Name of grandfather, John Beattle Hillman, horn Sweden. 
1800. Was drowned on Cape Ann, Mass., 1856. He was 
married Portland, Me., 1828. 

( )n March 24th, [898, the author received a letter from 
George \\ . Hillman, Freight Inspector, Trunk Lines Associa- 
tion, [809 X. 26th St., Philadelphia. His uncle's name was 
Charles Hillman, of the Hillman Ship Building Company, near 
Philadelphia. Several of his father's family went West some 
years ago. "There is a branch of the Hillman family in Tren- 
ton, X. J. Their first names, 1 do not know: but twenty years 
ago, when 1 was there, the gentlemen showed me a genealogy 
tree, and where my ancestors came from. If you are trying 
to get up a Hillman Reunion, I can arrange this end of it." 

LEWIS HILLMAN AND EX-PRESIDENT GARFIELD. 

Some years ago when the author was in St. Louis, he visited 
at the office of one of the Hillmans who owns a big depart- 
ment store in that city. He showed me a photograph of his 
father — Lewis Hillman — and the photograph very much 
resembled the ex-President James A. Garfield. He advised 
me that sour- years previous, his father — Lewis Hill- 
man — was a member of the Entertaining Committee in Chi- 
cago, when a reception was being given in honor of James A. 
Garfield who had just been nominated for President of the 
United States. Mr. Hillman so closely resembled Mr. Gar- 
field, that thousands of people shook hands with him, believ- 
ing that the_\- had met the presidential nominee. The crowd 
was so large that the Entertaining Committee was glad of the 
opportunity to use Mr. Hillman's good services in this capacity 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HlLLMAXS. 123 

to a slight extent, considering the matter somewhat of an 
amusing incident. 

There are quite a number of Hillman families in St. Louis. 

Erastus B. Hillman, b. South Hadley, Mass., Nov. ist, 1795. 

(A stone mason and farmer), m. Jan. 29th. 1827 or 8, Clarinda 

Stephens of North Brookfield, Mass.; d. North Brookfield, 

Mass., May 19th, 1879. Their children were: 

Wm. S. Hillman, b. Hatfield, Mass., Nov. 21st, 18 29; m. Roxanna 
Roles, Ossippe, N. H., Dec. 5th, 1852. m. secondly, Angelina Prouty 
of Spencer, Mass., Nov. 24th, 1862. 

Martha Fray Hillman. b. Feb. 12th. 1831; d. Feb. 29th, 1853. 

Samuel Jcduthan Hillman, b. May 10th, 1833; m. Katie S. Brown 
of Cummington, Mass., Dec. 6th, 1859. He was in the 37th Reg. Mass. 
Vol., at Stafford Quarters, Dec. 3rd, 1862. 

Erastus B. Hillman. b. Jan. 30th, 1837; d. Nov. 21st, 1839. 
John Henry Hillman. b. March 26th, 1839. Was in 10th Reg. 
Mass. Vol. Killed at Antietam, Sept. 17th, 1862. 

Erastus Hillman. b. May 19th, 1841; m. Nov. 6th, 1864, Mary J. 
Fuller, Springfield, Mass. 

In March, 1898, the author received a letter from Henry \Y. 
Hillman, 309 Cornell St., Chicago. He was a mason con- 
tractor and plasterer. His father's name was Josef Hillman. 
He was a slate roofer by trade. He died April 27th, 1894. He 
was married twice and had thirteen children by the first wife, 
and two by the second wife. 

In 1899 the author was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and met Fred 
D. Hillman (colored gentleman), employed as clerk in the 
Third National Bank. He advised me that his father's family 
lived in Covington, Ky. He seemed to be an intelligent young 
man of more than ordinary ability. 

In a letter March 30th, 1898, from Sarah C. Hillman, P. O. 

Box 78, Haddonfield, N. J. : 

"I can trace back to John Hillman, who came from England 1697, 
but would like to know from what part of the country he camr; also 
why he left his native land. I have been told the Hillmans came from 
the Isle of Man. but have no proof of it. If you know anything regard- 
ing this_ I would be glad to hear from you." 

Joseph Hillman of Troy, was a man of considerable prom- 
inence. He was b. 1833; d. 1890. Had a brother named John 
living San Francisco, Cal. Joseph's father's name was Isaac. 
He went to California in '49. Was married three times. 

Joseph Hillman had a daughter who married Win. Mollis- 
ter, Jr., in 1898. He was a lawyer in Troy, N. Y., of the firm 
of Davenport & Hollister. The author has met him. 



[24 THE HILLMAN IW.MILY. 

Joseph Ilillman caused his father's biography to be written. 
He was a man of considerable prominence, and very succ< 
ful. J c »s<.] >li Ilillman himself was also successful. He was a 
great Methodist, and revivalist, traveling extensively through- 
out Nfew York State; spent several weeks at a time in Boston, 
carrying on revival meeting's, lie published songs, and hymn 
books which were very popular. One edition covered 15.000, 
and several Other editions were printed. He met with an 
accident while driving a span of horses when the electric cars 
first came to Troy and was killed. The author called upon his 
wife in Troy some years ago, and was shown a photograph of 
Joseph Ilillman. The face was representative of a bright, 
cheery, personality, of marked intelligence and culture: a smil- 
ing countenance, indicative of a genial character. 

Fred Hillman, 1>. Beckington, Somerset, England, July 25th, 

1852; in. Maria Elizabeth Bergers at Bromly, Kent, England., 

May io;h, [879. She was h. at Blackheath, Kent. England, 

Oct. 1830. Their children were as follows: 

Franklin Wm. Hillman. I>. Kngland. K. b., 1880. 
Harry Ilillman. b. England, Dee., 1881. 
Anna Ilillman. b. England, March, 1885. 
Kate Ilillman. b. England, Oct., 1887. 
Arthur Ilillman, b. Chicago, Sept., 1889. 

Fred Hillman's father was Win. Hillman, born Somerset, 
England; died lieckington, England; married Sarah Davis. 
She was b. lieckington, England, May ioth, 1822; d. liecking- 
ton, England, Nov. [895. Was married Beckington, England, 
about [842. 

Fred Hillman's grandfather was Win. Hillman, born Somer- 
set, England about 1805; died Chippham, England, 1875. 

Fred W. Hillman, b. - 111.. July 15th, 1X74: in. 

Annie I Ust, Feb. 25th, [893. She was b. Chicago, June 2nd. 
187^. They had son Martin, born Chicago, Ilk. Sept. 17th. 
1X05. His father's name was Joachin T. Hillman, born Stein- 
burg, Mecklinburg, Germany. His mother's name was Mary 
Eggert, bom Berlin, Mecklinburg, Germany, March 7th. [839. 
Still living in Jan. [898. Were married Oct. 29th, [864. Fred. 
Hillman's grandfather was Frederick Ilillman, born in Ber- 
feldt, Mecklinburg, Swerin, Germany; died Kirchenrecin 
Swerin, Germany. Wife of Frederick Hillman, Sophia Quack. 



MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES TO HILLMAXS. 125 

John C. Hillman, brother of Frederick, b. Arlington Heights, 
111., m. Lizzie Diehl, Chicago, 111., Sept. 24th, [892. ( )ne child, 
Leonora,., b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 12th, 1898. 

His address in '98 was 395 North Winchester Ave., Chicago, 
111. 

Andrew G. Pierce of New Bedford, Mass., married a daugh- 
ter of one of the Hillmans who came from Martha's Vineyard. 
I think she was a daughter, or granddaughter of Zacariah Hill- 
man. Her husband, and sons for years have operated the large 
Pierce Mills, Xew Bedford. Some years ago, the author was 
at their mills in connection with business, and had the pleasure 
of meeting both of these sons. The daughter of Mrs. Pierce 
married J. W. Kellogg, Electrical Engineer of the large Elec- 
trical Works at Schenectady, X. Y. 

Allen R. Hillman, b. June 7th, 1846 in Philadelphia: m. June 
17th, 1873 to Camilla Campbell. She was b. July 30th, 1854 
in Gloucester County. X. J. They were divorced, and his sec- 
ond wife was Augusta Rendt, b. Berlin, Germany, Aug. 4th, 
1862. He had a sister Martha \Y., b. Philadelphia, 1848; d. 
Philadelphia. Sept. 8th, 1881. They had two children: 

Lizzie, b. Cleveland. Ohio. 1886. 

Lillian, b. Bowling Green, Ohio, Nov. 22nd. 1887. 

Father of Allen R. Hillman was Allen S. Hillman: horn 
Sept. nth, 181 1 : died Sangamon County, 111., Sept. 1857. He 
married - - Rignault, Aug. 15th, 1837. She was born May 

2nd, 181 1 in Philadelphia: died Nov. 10th, 1889 in Camden. 
N.J. 

The grandfather of Allen R. Hillman was Oliver Hillman : 
born May 10th, 1785 in Philadelphia; died March nth, [856, 
in Sangamon County, 111. His wife was Rachel Smith, who 
married July 23rd. 1807. His second wife was Mary A. Short. 

Oliver Hillman, b. May 10th, 1785 in Philadelphia, Pa.; m 
Rachel Smith, Philadelphia, July 23rd, 1807. 

In Powers' History, there is the following reference : "Tiny 
had six children in Philadelphia, and Xew Jersey, and moved 
with a part of their family to Springfield. 111., arriving there in 
April, 1839." 

Richard S. Hillman, son of Oliver (5), b. July 7th. 1808 in 
Xew Jersey: m. Aug. nth. 1831 in Philadelphia, to Mar-ant 
Knorr. They had four children : two died at age of three years. 



126 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

The) moved to Springfield, 111., in 1840. where two ehildren 
were born. In 1X40-47 they moved to St. Louis, when- twins 
were born; one died. ( )f their five living ehildren, .Mary C. 
born July 23rd, 1833 in Philadelphia, was married in Sanga- 
iiKin County, Ml., to Joseph 1'. Hesser. They had five children, 
;nid lived in Rloomington, 111. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

POETRY. 

The following is a letter from Dr. R. S. Hillman, Manches- 
ter, N. J.. Jan. 13th, 1876, to his sister Julia Presbrey Hillman: 

Manchester, Ocean Co., N. J., Jan. 13th, '76. 
Dear Sister Julia: — 

Your very welcome letter of Jan. 9th, was received on Wednes- 
day afternoon, Jan. 12th and was read with constantly increasing feel- 
ings of pleasure, till I found an engine playing upon me, which tended 
to check the ardor of my feelings, which were just ready to burst into a 
flame. 

I found my reputation for veracity, assailed, or at least doubted. 

You expressed a firm belief in me as a man of truth, and in the 
very next sentence, you expressed just as firm an unbelief in the cor- 
rectness of the written picture I sent you, representing myself as an 
old man. 

The value I place upon my reputation for truth, impels me, with- 
out delay, to make an effort to vindicate it. 

I think I'm an old man. This is the rock on which we split. 

Instead of founding an argument for defending the position I 
have taken relative to age, on the words, I'm an old man, I shall en- 
deavor to construct my weapons of defense from the words, "As ;i 
man thinketh, so is he." 

If I can hold this up to view, 

So as to prove it really true, 

I reach the point I wish to gain. 

And thus, for truth, my name sustain. 

Just as man thinketh, so is he; 
And will continue so to be, 
Until he thinketh differently; — 
A different man we then shall see. 

He, who on mis'ry always thinks, 
The cup of mis'ry surely drinks: 
But he who thinketh always right, 
Will wear a visage calm and bright. 

Wrong thinking, alway makes man worse; 
And thinking, thus becomes a curse; 
But thinking right, affords him joy, 
And does his powers for good employ. 

And thinking right, will make him strong, 
To battle with, and rout the wrong; 
But seeds of sorrow, pain and woe, 
By thinking wrong, he's sure to sow. 

It thus appears, if he would be 
From cause of pain and sorrow free, 
He must refrain from thinking wrong, 
And then, in thinking right, be strong. 



128 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

An unwise thinking forms n school, 
in which a man becomes a fool; 
But thinking wisely, makes the sage, 
A ii. I does i he ill- of life assuag 

'Plic difference, tin n, we daily 

In different men, it seems t<> me, 

I caused by thinking differently; — 

As -in their thoughts, their acts will be. 

Tin' monarch, high upon his throne, 
Thinks everything, by right, his own; 
Ami while his subjects till t In- soil, 
He claims the product of their toil. 

The dandy thinks thai dressing well, 
Will gain the hearl of every belle; 
Ami hence to dress in gay attire, 
Bi gets his first and last desire. 

The miser thinks alone of wealth. 
And condescends to work by stealth, 
To make additions to his store, 
And always wants a little more. 

The spendthrift freely spends his cash, 
Because he thinks 'tis worthless trash, 
Compared with that which cash will buy; 
His thinking makes the money fly. 

The drunkard thinks he needs a dram; 

And though he knew his soul 'twould damn. 

Away from heaven he would flee, 

To get some grog and have a spree. 

A man to noble thinking given. 
Is in the way that leads to Heaven. 
A man whose thoughts on evil dwell. 
Is in the way that leads to hell. 

Now you believe in Holy writ. 
And consequently must admit. 
That in my text, there's no defect, 
Then, it' my reasoning is correct. 

Just as my thinking is, I am, 
Though I. to you. appear a sham. 
I still shall hope and think I can. 
Appear to you an agod man. 

Now, it I have not fully shown. 
That nun are as they think, I'll own. 
Put with reluctance, that l am. 
As you may think, in part, a sham. 

Xow dear sisier. I will step aside from what 1 intended as an inno- 
cenl amusement, and. as it is evident, that. 

While tie' cycles of eternity, come and go, 
Our thoughts will effect us for weal or for woe, 
I e1 us in earnest pray. 
May we be freed 
From every creed. 
And every worldly weed, 
Thai f. nds to feed 
Our minds with greed, 
For that we do not need 



POETRY. 129 

Lord, wilt Thou bead 

Us in our need; 
Help us to run with speed; — 

To learn to read 

And always heed 
Thy will, in every deed. 

We humbly plead, 

That Thou would'st feed 
Our minds as we have need; 

That no foul weed, 

May go to seed, 
Or e'er crop out in deed. 

May we be led 

And daily fed 
By Thee, Thou Living Head, 

Who freely bled, 

(To give us bread) 
And raise us from the dead. 

Friday morning, January 14th. 

Conflicting circumstances render it a difficult matter to arrive at 
a sudden decision relative to your proposals. 

I have not had time to take the subject into consideration, suf- 
ficiently, to enable me, understanding^, to give a reply; and conse- 
quently, am compelled to defer it until a future day. Your letter af- 
forded a key, by which I was enabled to unlock my storehouse of 
thought and bring out ideas, which, otherwise, probably would never 
taken outward form. 

The pleasure arising from new discoveries in my brain world I 
have not room to describe. 

Two weeks ago today, in my haste to mail my letter, to you, I 
entirely overlooked the different members of your family. 

BY REFLECTION. 

I found I'd treated with neglect, 
Some friends, I really did respect. 
I'd now express, although 'tis hard, 
A double portion of regard. 

Ruth F., who is my legal wife, 
And solace of my present life, 
Unites with me in sending love, 
And hopes we all shall meet above. 

Hoping to hear from you soon, I am with much regard and affec- 
tion your brother, 

R. S. HILLMAN. 

The following is a letter from Dr. R. S. Hillman, living in 
Manchester, N. J., May 5th, 1877, to his sister Elizabeth Hill- 
man Field of North Hatfield, Mass. : 

Manchester, May 5th, '77. 
Dear Sister: — 

I do not send you this little book, because it contains many ideas 
which are new to you, but to give you a view of ideas, with which you 
are acquainted, in a different dress from that in which they have here- 
tofore appeared. 



130 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

A pebble dropped into a stream of water, sometimes changes its 
whole current. 

Slight circumstances change the current of our thoughts in such 
a manner as to shape all our future course in life; and will continue to 
exerl an influence upon our happiness, during the ceaseless ages of 
eternity. 

One thought begets another, and that still another, and so on to 
an unlit extent. 

I make the three last remarks, because ideas connected with the 
third verse started a train of thought in my mind, which commences 
at verse l 1. and ends abruptly at verse 142. Verses 1 to 10 were writ- 
ten afterwards, as a preface or sort of explanation. 



BIBLE FACTS IN KIIYME. 

(BY DR. R. S. HILLMAN.) 
PREFACE. 



My age in years is sixty one; 
My work on earth is almost done. 
I look upon my Setting Sun, 
And feel my race is almost run. 

2 

I am reminded every day, 
That I may shortly pass away. 
Some sign betokens every hour, 
That worms my flesh will soon devour. 

3 

My outward form is cursed, and must 
Obey the law and turn to dust, 
Unless the Lord doth interpose 
The gate of ghastly death to close. 

4 

From thoughts connected with the curse. 
Of which I've spoken in third verse, 
And that the Lord could interpose, 
And shut that gate, this book arose. 

5 
While seeking truths that would explain 
Thoughts in that verse, I struck a vein 
Of Bible facts, on which I thought, 
Until I found the Bible taught 
The fact that God had formed a plan, 
To close the gate of death to man. 
That this He'll do, the scriptures show, 
But when and how I do not know. 

6 

I could not see, but wonder'd, why 
Mankind were form'd so they could die. 
To gain the knowledge which I sought, 
The Bible to my aid I brought, 



POETRY. 131 



7 
And followed up the train of thought, 
And found the scriptures plainly taught 
The doctrine, that the origin 
Of ghastly death, was Adam's sin. 

8 
Then again while I was thinking, 
I espied another vein 
Of ideas, and went to linking 
Past events to form a chain. 

9 

Acts of men in different ages, 
I've described as best I could, 
"Whether they were fools or sages, — 
Whether they were vile or good. 

10 
I have shown what kind of wages, 
Different men of old were paid 
For their deeds, and in these pages, 
You will find those deeds portray'd. 



CHAPTER FIRST. 

My dearest Sister E. M. Field; 

I now, for you my pen will wield. 

12 

Some Bible facts I will rehearse, 
As best I can, to you in verse; 
Although I might perhaps disclose, 
My thoughts with better grace in prose. 

13 

When Eve and Adam first were made, 
God's Spirit did their minds pervade; 
But on them Satan made a raid, 
And hence, on them a curse was laid. 

14 

These facts which have the world perplex'd, 
For some remarks I'll make my text. 
The first and second lines I'll take, 
On which my Chapter first to make. 

15 
When God made Adam and his Eve, 
Their life from Him they did receive; 
The holy breath of God they breathed, 
And He, in love to them bequeathed. 

16 
An Eden fill'd with fruitful trees, 
Untouch'd by insects or disease; 
And all the creatures He had made, 
To Adam God — the Lord conveyed. 



182 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 



17 

These trees were made to yield them meat, 
Ami Go,d, to them gave leave to eat 
The fruit from nil the trees bul one, — 
The tree of knowledge, they must shun. 



And gave this fearful reason why: 
The day you eat thereof you'll die. 
('Twould be about the same to say, 
You'll never die, if you obey. 

19 

My mind is fill'd with great surprise, 

That death should come from growing wise; 

But 'tis enough for me to know, 

That then and there, 'twas even so.) 

2'0 

Before their God in freedom stood 

The twain, and God pronounced them good. 

With innocence they were inbued, 

And 'hence were not ashamed though nude. 

21 

In innocence they ate such fruit, 
As trees had borne, their state to suit. 
And to unfold in them — a clod. 
The image of their Maker — God. 



CHAPTER 2nd. 



22 

But on them Satan made a raid, 
And hence a curse was on them laid. 
Onthoughts which in these lines abound, 
My Second Chapter I will found. 

23 

The serpent undertook to make 
Our ancient mother ,Eve partake 
Of fruits which God the Lord forbid; 
He therefore into Eden slid. 

24 

With lying tongue and did deny 

God's word. He said; you shall not die, — 

To eat thereof will ope your eyes, 

And you shall be as Gods — thus wise. 

25 

Eve saw 'twas pleasant to the eyes, 
And also that 'twould make one wise. 
Then pluck'd the tempting fruit and ate, 
And also gave it to her mate, 



POETRY... 138. 



26 

In ignorance they both did eat',: • 

And then from God they did retreat. 
With open'd eyes themselves they viewed, 
And saw with shame that' they w-dreMtutfc. 

- -i 

With knowledge they acquired, came 
The sense of nakedness and shame. 
To hide their shame, they form'd a rig. 
From leaves they gather' d from the fig.' 

28 

They had their Maker disobeyed, 
And hence, of Him they were afraid. . 
They say they'd done what God forbid. 
And then among the trees they hid. 

29 

I H j ,1 

When God — their Maker call'd to, them, 
Themselves their knowledge did condemn. 
To clear himself, poor Adam tried 
To fix the blame upon his bride. 

30 

The brief reply the woman made, 
The blame upon the serpent laid. ■ '" ' 
Before the Lord the serpent lacy^, 41 ' ' 
But he had not a word to say. 

31 

Then God — the Lord the trio cursed,. 
But, of the three, the serpent worst;- 
Because to him the Lord God said: 
The woman's seed shall bruise they head. 

i 
32 

Henceforth you'll have no use for feet, 
And dust henceforward you shall eat; 
As you have sown, so you shall reap;— 
Upon your belly you shall creep. 

33 

I must confess I can't rehearse 

To you, God's curse on Eve, in verse. 

In Genesis you'll find her curse, 

In chapter third and sixteenth verse. ■ 

34 

God cursed the ground for Adam's sake, 
Because with Eve he did partake; 
And said; in sorrow you shall eat; 
Henceforward herbs shall fee your meat. 

35 

And you shall eat in sweat of brow;' ' 
(A curse in force since then till now.) 
As you were taken from the dust. 
'Twas said; return to it you must. 



134 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

36 
God clothed the pair in coats of skins, 
To hide their shame, but not their sins. 
From Eden God drove out the man, 
To till the earth and scheme and plan, 
And get along as best he could, 
Between the evil and the good. 

37 

And then He placed a flaming knife, 
To keep them from the tree of life, 
Lest they should eat and always live, 
In deeds which He could not forgive. 

38 
If thus in evil they were fix'd, 
No sacrifice could come betwixt 
A just and holy law and them, 
And hence the law would them condemn, 
To outer darkness and a state 
Of fierce antagonistic hate. 

39 

God sent them forth to till the earth, 

Or ground, from which they had their birth; 

And then, in mercy interposed 

A Heavenly guard and sword and closed 

The passage to the tree of life, 

And thus prevented endless strife. 

40 

Though they were left alone to grope 
Their way in darkness, yet a hope 
Arose within their troubled breast, 
Through faith, that yet they should be blest. 

41 

Of Christ this only hint appears, 
For more than nineteen hundred years. 
The woman's seed, the Lord had said, 
Should bruise the serpents head. 

42 

This gave them hope that God would shape, 

A way by which they might escape 

The jaws of everlasting death, 

And breathe again God's holy breath. 

43 

The serpent's curse gave them a gleam 
Of hope, that God would yet redeem, 
And in His favor reinstate 
And raise them from their fallen state. 

CHAPTER 3rd. 

44 
The tree of life, of which we've heard, 
I'll make my base for chapter third. 

This tree, it seems, had power to give 
A state in which to always live. 



POETRY. 135 

45 

'Twas will'd to Adam and his Eve, 
To eat its fruit God gave them leave; 
And yet its fruit they did not eat; — 
Prom other trees they sought their meat. 

46 
The fact is true as that they died, 
This tree their food did not provide. 
If they, for food, this fruit had tried, 
Their bodies never could have died. 

47 

Why they this fruit did not receive, 
When it was free, I can't conceive. 
As long as it was in their range, 
That they should it reject, is strange. 

48 

It seems, like children, if they could 
Have reached this tempting fruit, they would. 
This is a subject which, to me, 
Is wrapt in deepest mystery. 

49 

I from the fount of wisdom drink. 

And then these thoughts with reason think. 

Before their great and awful fall. 

To reach this fruit they were too small. 

50 

This fact compell'd them to postpone 
Its use, till they were taller grown; 
Till they might reach a God-like stage, 
Where they successful war could wage, 
With every foe that might invade 
Their home, or on them make a raid. 

51 

This fruit was inappropriate, 
Till they, through trials, reach'd a state, 
In which, by God, they could be taught, 
The knowledge which the serpent brought. 

52 

Had they partaken ere they fell, 

And then had fallen, endless hell 

Would been their everlasting fate; 

For God could not have changed their state. 

That inference from this I draw; — 

God never works against His law. 

53 
The power was vested in this tree, 
To give them immortality, 
If they obey'd the Lord's behest, 
In passing through their trial test, 

54 
Their germs of pure intelligence, 
Unfolded in obedience, 

In wisdom would have made them strong, 
And placed them far above all wrong. 



136 THE HIL.LMAN FAMILY. 

en \i»ti-:k nil. 

55 
The tree of knowledge I will take, 
On which my chapter fourth to make. 

56 

When Adam and his Eve were young. 
Upon this tree in beauty hung. 
The fruit which caused the death of man. 
Was this according to God's plan? 

57 

Without this awful circumstance, 
They must have remain'd in ignorance, 
Unless their Maker had a way, 
By which, to them, He could convey, 
A knowledge both of right and wrong, 
And in the right to make them strong. 

58 

I think we've reason to suppose, 
'Twas God's purpose to disclose 
To them, when He in wisdom could, 
A view of evil and of good. 

59 

There somewhere must have been a point, 
If they had not got out of joint. 
Where they'd have understood this tree, 
And still been innocent and free. 

60 

For otherwise, 'tis plainly seen, 
They would have been a mere machine; 
And hence their every act and move, 
Would have been like sliding in a groove. 

61 

They were in the hands of God; 
As they were moved, so they would plod. 
They then would have had no agency, 
And no accountability. 

62 

God caution'd them to shun this tree, 
And that is proof that tiny were free. 
Their long-to-be-remember'd act. 
Beyond dispute, confirms this fact. 

63 

Had they been loyal to their God, 

The path to knowledge they might have trod, 

In innocence, until they reach'd 

The tree of knowledge unimpeach'd. 

64 

They thus, by God in wisdom placed, 
Would have been prepared this fruit to taste. 
The serpent then with all his prate, 
Would have had qo power to change their stale 



POETRY. 137 

65 
The only fruit which was not free 
To them, grew on this famous tree. 
As Eve was in a youthful state, 
Of it. in ignorance, she ate. 

66 
She also gave it to her mate, 
And both became degenerate. 
In ignorance they both partook, 
And then, through knowledge, God forsook. 

67 
In doing this they did rebel, 
And thus from innocence they fell; 
And in their fall, they brought disgrace 
And death, on them, and all their ran'. 

6S 
The day in which occurr'd their chime 
They thought with them the end of .time. 
The Lord had said: (I can't tell why), 
"The day you eat thereof you'll die." 

69 

But from the sentence they received, 
They were, by God through grace, reprieved. 
From ancient records it appears, 
The time was near ten hundred years. 

70 

The human race on earth increased 
Ten thousand fold to one deceased; 
But all, through Adam's fallen state, 
Were born and lived degenerate. 

71 
And all were subject to decay, 
Without one solitary ray 
Of hope, beyond the dawning tomb; 
For death eternal seem'd their doom. 

72 

Their warring elements within, 
Which fell to them through Adam's sin, 
Produced in them a constant strife, 
And thus embitter'd all their life. 

CHAPTER 5th. 

73 
In ancient records I will strive 
To find some facts for Chapter live. 
These records I will make my base, 
From which, the deeds of men to trace. 

74 

At first I'll give a view, in rhymes, 
Of deeds of men in olden times. 
And then I'll ti-y to show the ways 
Of men who lived in later. days. 



138 THE HILLMAN family. 

75 

A fierce antagonistic strife, 
Caused Cain to take his brother's life; 
And then through strong desire to hide 
From God his awful crime, he lied. 

76 

The record says, the sons of God, 
Sought paths the sons of men had trod, 
And from their daughters took them wives, 
Which brought a curse upon their lives. 

77 

When they became inured to crime, 
The Lord reduced the length of time, 
For man to live in vile careers, 
Down to one hundred twenty years. 

78 

Time ever busy onward roll'd, 

And men grew worse as they grew old; 

With few exceptions evil served; 

Their arms against their God they nerved; 

The mighty God of earth defied, 

And in their deadly sins they died. 

79 

But men upon the earth increased 
Ten thousand fold to one deceased. 
As they grew wicked they grew strong. 
To free the earth from basest wrong, 

80 

A flood of waters God employ'd, 
By which, He all mankind destroy'd, 
Except eight souls who did embark, 
By God's command in Noah's ark. 

81 
Upon the earth the waters raged, 
Five months, and then they were assuaged; 
And Noah's ark in safety sat 
Upon the mountain Ararat. 

82 
But Noah hardly touch'd the ground, 
Ere he, with wine, his senses drowned, 
And then, (which seems to me much worse), 
He on his grandson laid a curse. 

CHAPTER, 6th. 

83 

For many years no one deceased, 
And people rapidly increased, 
And through ambition sought to climb 
To Heaven by aid of brick and slime. 

84 

I do not understand the game, 
They undertook, to make a name, 
But know that they were growing strong, 
In what, in sight of God, was wrong. 



POETRY. 139 

85 
For when He saw what they had done, — 
That they in word and deed were one, 
The Lord descended to the ground, 
And soon their language did confound. 

86 
Then scatter'd them throughout the earth, 
Thus different nations had their birth. 
Then rampant grew the seeds of strife; — 
Between the nations wars were rife. 

87 

Ere many years had passed away, 
Mankind were led to disobey 
The kind and just commands of God, 
And were controll'd by Satan's rod. 

88 

With few exceptions men were lost 
On seas of strife, and madly toss'd 
Upon their dark and rolling waves, 
Till they were plunged in gory graves. 

89 

On parts of earth, the hellish seeds, 
Which Satan sowed, crop'd out in deeds, 
Which brought from Heaven as purifier, 
A rain of brimstone and of fire. 

90 
From two doom'd cities only three, 
Could be prevailed upon to flee 
Away beyond the reach of harm; 
The rest, the threat did not alarm; — 

91 

Except Lot's wife, who made a halt, 
From lack of faith, and turn'd to salt. 

92 
It seems to me extremely strange, 
That Satan could so soon estrange 
Mankind from paths their fathers trod, 
And cause them to forget their God. 



CHAPTER 7 th. 

93 
Amid the hate and strife and rage, 
Of man, in that benighted age, 
To Abram, God, in love, appears, 
And sheds a light on coming years. 

94 
A second hint of Christ is given, 
By whom all evil shall be riven; 
In whom mankind may safely rest; 
Through whom, shall all the earth be blest. 



1 (I) THE HI1.LMAX FAMILY. 

95 
in Abraham there was no fault, 
And hence, his God did him exalt. 
And attribute to him more worth, 
Than all the other men at earth. 

96. 

Because he was the only man 
To carry forward God's great plan; 
Because through him 'twas God's design. 
To join the huma n and di\ Ine. 

97 

And thus to open up a way 
Through which he could himself display 
To man, and make him truly blest 
Through Christ, in flesh, made manifest. 

98 

When Abraham, by God, was tried, 
In God, through faith he did confide, 
We learn from deeds <>f Abraham, 
His faith in God was not a sham. 

99 
Through faith in God, to take his life, 
Without delay, he raised his knife. 

100 
And though it was his only son. 
The trying work was soon begun. 
An angel saw he stood the test, — 
The work was stopped, and he was blest. 

101 

Command against all reason, must 
In Abraham, have produced distrust, 
Had he not had experience, 
Before, in strict obedience. 

102 

His inspirations were refined, 
And his impressions well denned. 
His senses km \\ the touch of God, 
And hence, the way God will'd, he trod. 

103 

A glorious light was seen to shine 
Along adown this patriarch's line, 
Until it reach'd the fourth degree, 
in that illustrious pedigree. 

104 
Ere Jacob's sons were full grown men. 
The seeds of Satan cropp'd again, 
And gave to some of them a will. 
To lie and cheat and steal and kill. 

105 
From jealousy, tiny Joseph sold. 
And lion by acts they plainly told 
Their father that some hungry beast, 
Had of his idol made a feast. 



POETRY. 1 1 1 



106 



This wicked act, 'tis understood, 
They meant for evil, not for good. 



CHAPTER 8th. 

107. 

Down into Egypt Joseph went, 
Or rather he by God was sent. 
To gather up the fruits of earth. 
To feed mankind in time of dearth. 

108 

To carry out what God design'd 
To do, through Jacob's son, we find 
Both good and evil' means were used. 
For he was blest, and was abused. 

109 

A wanton woman blew a blast, 
Which into prison Joseph cast. 
Interpretations none could doubt. 
Were used as means to bring him out. 

110 
Two dreams the King of Egypt dream'd, 
Which he of great importance deem'd; 
But none could tell him what they meant, 
Till Pharaoh for Joseph sent. 

Ill 

Young Joseph said to Pharaoh, 

Your dreams are one; and God doth show, 

That there will be upon the earth, 

An over-yield and • then a dearth. 

112 

Then Joseph did the king advise, 
To set some one discreet and wise, 

To lay up stores of grain to feed 
A starving world in time of need. 

113 

An over-yield to save supplies, 
Was wise and good in Pha'roh's eyes: 
And hence to Joseph he applies. 
This mighty work to supervise. 

114 

Interpretations seryed to bring 
Him into favor with the king, 
Who placed a ring upon his hand, 
And gave him rule o'er all the land. 

115 

The King of Egypt entertained, 

A faith in Him that was not fain'd; 

And hence he only kept the name 

Of king, while Joseph play'd the game 



142 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

116 

In finest linen he was dress'd, 

And with a golden chain was blest. 

The linen did his person deck, 

The chain was placed about his neck. 

117 
"Before Him bow the knee, they cried:" 
Yet Joseph was not puff'd with pride; 

Though he did in a chariot ride, 
His God was always by his side. 

118 
When Joseph into Egypt came, 
They call'd him by his hebrew name; 
But when array'd in kingly gear, 
They call'd him Zaphnath — Paaneah. 

119 
Thus did this noble king. To show 
Still more regard, King Pharaoh 
To Zaphnath — Paaneah said: 
Asenath Potipherah wed. 

120 
Young Joseph was a model man; 
However closely we may scan 
His acts, we find that from his heart, 
He always acted well his part. 

121 

In his deportment he was mild, 

And in his conduct undefiled; 

And he was meek, though he was great; 

Was modest, though he rode in state. 

122 
He ruled in wisdom, all that land, 
And all things prospered in his hand. 
He sought God's aid in all he did, 
And naught, of use, was from him hid. 

CHAPTER 9th. 

123 

The years of plenty shortly came, 
Which gave to Joseph his new name; 
And Zephnath — Paaneah flll'd 
All granaries, as God had will'd. 

124 

Then came the time which God reveal'd, 
When earth her fruits should cease to yield. 
Ere many years had pass'd, the dearth 
Was over all the face of earth. 

125 
Through all the lands the dearth was sore, 
And men exhausted all their store. 
No grain was left but Joseph's hoard, 
Which he, through faith in God, had stored. 



POETRY. 143 

126 
About Jacob's sons, each took an ass, 
(Except their father's youngest born,) 
And went to Egypt after corn. 

127 

As Joseph ruled o'er all that land, 
Supplies came only from his hand. 
His brethren came before his face, 
And bow'd themselves and sought his grace. 

128 
He knew the men, but thought it wise, 
To treat them roughly and as spies; 
But him, array'd in kingly guise, 
His brethren did not recognize. 

129 

Then Joseph thought of what he dream'd 

While in his father land, and deem'd 

It necessary to fulfill 

God's holy, just and righteous will. 

130 

And hence, for reasons doubtless wise, 
He told his brethren they were spies. 
They said: we're one man's sons, and then 
They also said; we are true men. 

131 

But he, no doubt, by God was moved 
To say: hereby you shall be proved; 
For by the life of Pharaoh, 
From hence I will not let you go, 
Except your youngest brother show 
Himself to me, that I may know 
Your words are true; for otherwise, 
By Phar'oh's life, you're surely spies. 

132 

Send one of you and fetch the youth, 
That I may know you speak the truth; 
The rest in prison shall remain, 
Till I a sight of him obtain. 

133 

Then Joseph, being Egypt's lord, 

Put all his brethren into ward; 

But at the end of three full days, 

Through fear of God, he changed his ways, 

And said: If you are honest men, 

Let one of you be bound, and then 

Go you and bless your homes with corn, 

And bring your father's youngest born. 

Your words, you thus shall verify; — 

If this you do, you shall not die. 

134 

This they did, but ere they started, 
To their feelings they gave vent, 
For they all were broken hearted, 
And their souls with grief were rent, 



] I I THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

135 
And they said one to another, 
We are guilty in that we, 
Saw the anguish of our brother, 
But we would not hear his plea. 

136 
This they said, before their brother, 
For they thought he- only heard 
Through the language of another, 

While he knew their every word. 

137 
He his brethren was distressing, 
Not to gratify ill will, 
But to bring on them a blessing, 
And God's holy will fulfill. 

138 
They confess'd that they were reaping 
From their acts, a just reward. 
He could not refrain from weeping, 
Though he fill'd the rank of lord. 

139 
Simeon he kept in prison, 
Bound before his brethren's .yes. 
He to wisdom had arisen, 
And his acts were always wise. 

140 

Then his help by him were bidden, 
Each man's sack to fill with food, 
And he order'd to be hidden, 
All their money Cor Heir good. 

141 
Then their beasts with corn they laded. 
And in sorrow homeward went, 
Feeling they had been degraded, 
And that their distress, was sent, 
As a just and holy judgment 
From their father's only God; 
Ami their forms became recumbent, 
As they slowly homeward trod. 

142 

To their father they related, 
How, when they besought supplies, 
Egypt's lord, with them, debated, 
To condemn them all as spies. 

When I arrived at this point in the above history, I suddenly be- 
came more unwell than usual, and my poetic machinery ceased to run. 

When it was again started, I found some of the gearing had be< n 
changed; for, although I was extremely anxious to continue to write 
upon the above subject, what run through my poetic mill, came out 
for Horace. 

Whether the machinery will ever be readjusted so as to turn out 
rhymes on the above subject again or not,. I cannot tell. If it should 
be, at any time in the future, I will endeavor to favor you with tin 
result. 



POETRY. 145 

As what 1 sent to Horace, yesterday, was produced soon after the 
foregoing, and as I happen to have room for it, I will connect it with 
this book. 

From your brother, 
N. B. — Write soon. ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 

In referring to "this book," Dr. Hillman has reference to 
several letters which he connected together and upon which 
he placed a home-made cover. He was fond of making cloth 
covers, and the author is very much pleased that he possessed 
this fad, because all of the letters which have been preserved 
are the ones which Dr. Hillman personally covered with a 
cloth binding. 

Following is letter from Dr. Hillman of Manchester, N. J., 
to Uncle Horace Field of North Hatfield, Mass. : 

Manchester, N. Y., May 1st, 187 7. 
My dear friend and brother Horace; 
I've a wish and word for you. 
May the God of mercy solace 
You in mind, and thus subdue, 
All your thoughts which now are holding 
Your affections down to earth. 
Daily seek to be unfolding 
Wings for flight to higher birth. 
Your afflictions are distressing, 
But if they are used aright, 
They are sure to prove a blessing, 
And will help to make you white, 
May you never yield to moping, 
Feeling that you're insecure, 
But be filled with cheer from hoping, 
That the Lord will make you pure. 
If sad thoughts of death come o'er you, 
Turn your mind and look away, 
Where loved friends have gone before you, 
To the realms of lasting day. 
Then rejoice in hope of meeting 
Loved ones on the other shore. 
Oh the joy! of greeting 
Loved ones who have gone before. 
Earthly joys are like a bubble, 
Which soon bursts and leaves a void. 
Earthly pleasures bring us trouble, 
When for selfish ends employed. 
But there's true and lasting pleasure 
In the Spirit's upward rise, 
To an uncorrupted treasure, 
Up among the good and wise. 
Turn your mind from earthly treasure; 
Throw aside all earthly care; 
Seek the realms of real pleasure, 
And a happy visage wear. 
Nerve yourself and cut the cable, 
Which now holds your mind to earth; 
Do it now, while you are able; 
Then you'll rise to things of worth. 



146 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

When you feel your mind arising, 
Like a well fill'd air balloon, 
Do not yield to doubts, surmising 
That you'll wreck again'st the moon, 
Kcst upon the rock <>r ages; 

Trust iii Mini implicitly: 
Seek to imitate the sages, 

And a happy man you'll he. 

If this Rock your mind engages, 

For your thinking you'll receive, 

Blessedness and peace as wages, 

Ami be freed from cause to grieve, 

Then, through faith, you'll feel like shouting, 

Hallelujah! .Jesus reigns! 

Praise the Lord, for Ho is routing, 

All my foes and all my pains. 

Respectfully Yours, 

ROSWELL S. HILLMAX. 
P. S. — 

I would with pleasure, if I could, 
Exclaim; my health is very good; 
But very much against my will, 
I am compell'd to say: I'm ill. 

R. S. H. 
Manchester, N. J., May 10th, 1877. 
Dear Sister Elizabeth: 

In the evening of the day on which I mailed my last letter to you, 
entitled 

BIBLE] PACTS IN RHYME. 

my rhyming machinery was again set in motion and soon turned out 
the following which is a continuation of the above facts, from page 43. 

143 
They told him all that had been done 
To force from him his youngest son. 
Then Jacob, feeling sorely grieved, 
Exclaimed: "me have ye bereaved." 

144 
He said: Of Joseph I'm bereft, 
And Benjamin alone is left; 
If him you take, from deepest grief 
My grave alone can give relief. 

145 
Then Reuben said: Send him with me, 
And I'll return him safe to thee. 
Winn we have proved ourselves true men, 
I'll bring him back to you again. 

146 
But Jacob said: (when R. got through, 
"My son shall not go down with you." 
If harm should come to him, 'twould pave 
My way, with sorrow, to the grave." 

147 
While they debated, they had drawn 
Upon their food till it was gone. 
When Jacob saw no food in store, 
He ordered them to go for more, 



POETRY. 147 



148 
Then Judah thus his Sire address'd: 
'The man did solemnly protest.' 

"You shall not see my face again, 
Until you prove yourselves true men." 

149 

'But this, by us, cannot be done, 
Until he sees your youngest son. 
Unless our brother we can show 
To Egypt's lord, we will not go." 

150 
When Jacob saw it must be so, 
He said: (to shun a greater woe,) 
"Take fruits, the best in all the land; 
Take double money in your hand; 

151 
Take also Benjamin and go. 
The fruits on Egypt's lord bestow, 
And God Almighty give you grace, 
Before the lord of Egypt's face; 

152 
If, of my children, I'm bereaved 
My soul will be most sorely grieved. 
To carry out this sire's intent, 
They took the fruit, arose and went 

153 

To Joseph, and before him stood, 
For evil deeds receiving good. 

May 13. 154 

Now when Joseph saw his brother — 
His dear brother Benjamin, 
And the son of his dear mother, 
And his only full-blood kin. 

155 
He from pure fraternal feeling, 
Order'd food to be prepared, 
Which, before himself revealing, 
He with all his brethren shared. 

156 
For his heart with love was swelling, 
Hence he said: (to Steward,) "Stay 
And make ready, in my dwelling, 
These shall dine with me today." 

157 
They knew not why they were bidden 
To the house of Egypt's lord. 
For the cause was wisely hidden; 
Hence they fear'd again the ward. 

158 
They were smitten with the feeling, 
(As their money was returned,) 
That they should be tried for stealing, 
And they all were much concern'd, 



148 THE HI M.MAN FAMILY. 



159 

They had cause for real gladness, 

But that cause was mil revealed: 

And their minds were fill'd with sadness, 

For their fate was kept concealed. 

160 
What was being done from kindness. 
They suspected was a snare; 
And they all from mental blindness. 
Almost yielded to despair. 

101 

They to Joseph's steward stated, 
All the facts which caused them grief, 
And the grief those facts created, 
And through Him the5 r sought relief. 

162 

"Peace to you," he said, "and pleasure; 
Do not yield your minds to fear; 
In your sacks God gave you treasure." 
Thus they gain'd a little cheer. 

163 

Simeon, whose fate cast o'er them 
Gloomy doubts and deepest grief. 
Was brought out and set before them. 
Which afforded great relief. 

164 

While their story they were telling, 
Unbeknown to them, they stood 
Near their brother Joseph's dwelling. 
Unaware of coming good. 

165 

Into Joseph's princely dwelling. 

All the men were introduced, 

While their hearts were largely swelling, 

Lest they all should be traduced. 

160 

They with water were provided, 
Which they used to wash their feet; 
Then their acts, by taste were guided, 
Till their toilet was comph te. 

167 

And from lack of juicy grasses, 
On the hills and on the plain, 
Joseph's steward fed their asses, 
With a kind of coarsish grain. 

168 

At the proper hour for dining, 
Gentle Zaphnath — paanea h, 
In a dress all bright and shining, 
To his brel hen did a ppca r. 



POETRY. 149 



169 



Then the present they presented, 
Thus they carried out the plan, 
Which their father had Invented, 
With a view to please "the num." 

170 

Joseph anxiously inquired: 
"Does your father yet survive?" 
They replied as he desired, 
"Still our father is alive." 

171 

They from thoughts of past malfeasance, 
Being humbled, (thus it seems,) 
Bowed their heads and made obeisance, 
Thus fulfilling Joseph's dreams. 

172 

Joseph look'd upon his brother. 
And he made this heartfelt plea, 
For the son of his own mother: 
"God be gracious unto thee." 

173 

Watch of Providential dealings, 
Joseph from the first had kept 
Which so wrought upon his feelings, 
That he went away and wept. 

174 

He refrained himself from weeping. 
When his grief he could suppress; 
Still his tender heart was leaping 
His dear brother to caress. 

175 

His affection still was burning, 
But he wash'd his face and said 
(With composure, on returning,) 
To his servants, "Set on bread." 

176 

At the table all were seated, 
Egypt's ruler at the head, 
Who in love and kindness meted, 
Out to each of them bis bread. 

177 

*Four times more he gave bis brother— 
His dear brother Benjamin, 
Than he dealt to any other. 
For he was his nearest kin. 

178 

They were seated by the pages, 
Round their brothers bounteous board, 
In accordance with their ages, 
To partake of Joseph's hoard. 



*Four times more, is the same as five times as much. 



150 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

179 

When first seated, they were fearful, 
Of sonic well concerted plot; 
But on wine they soon grew cheerful, 
And they all their fears forgot. 

Manchester, July 30th, '77. 
All ln>ugh I have received no reply to a letter which I sent you 
May LOth, yet to fulfill a promise I made in that, 1 will send you this. 
1 in,, nded i<> hold this in my possession, till I received a letter from 
you, but so long a time has passed away since I heard from you, I 
begin to think you did not receive my May letter, or that you are too 
unwell In write. 

Very respectfully yours, 

ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 

1'. s. (live my regards to Horace. Also to Edwin and Henry and 
their families. 

You can sew this into the cover I sent you last, at page 48, if it 
Is worth the trouble. 

Manchester, N. J., June 31st, '78. 
I (ear Sister Elizabeth: — 

When I finished writing those rhymes which I sent you one year 
ago this month, my machinery, for the manufacture of rhymes, on 
that subject, was thrown out of gear, and was not readjusted till quite 
recently. A few days since, it was put in running order and soon 
turned out the following: 

BIBLE FACTS IN RHYME. 

Joseph's brethren are supplied with grain and start for home — 
They are overtaken and indirectly charged with theft — Joseph's cup 
is found with Benjamin — They all go back to the city — Joseph indi- 
rectly accuses them of rendering evil for good — Benjamin is condemned 
to servitude— Judah earnestly prays to be made a servant in his stead 
II, pleads pathetically on his father's account — Joseph is overcome 
by sympathy, cries aloud and makes himself known — Arrangements 
are made for his brethren and their families to move to Egypt — They 
are furnished with wagons and everything necessary for their comfort 
and convenience on their journey — They carry to their father the 
news that Joseph is alive — Jacob disbelieves their statement — He is 
convinced of its truth when the train of wagons arrive — The move is 
made They arrive in Goshen — Joseph meets his father, falls upon 
his neck, and they both weep — Jacob exclaims: Since I have seen thy 
face, now let me die. 

BIBLE FACTS IN RHYME. 

Continued from page 60 in my letter to you in June, 1877. 

180 

Again their sacks were fill'd with corn, 
And early in the next day's morn. 
They started on their homeward track, 
A ruse was used to bring them back. 

181 

l-'nr Joseph form'd a strategem, 
By which, in seeming, to condemn 
His dearest brother — Benjamin, 
For yielding to a grievous sin, 



POETRY. 151 



182 

He plan'd, for reasons good and wise, 
To give his brethren great surprise. 
He put his cup in Bennie's sack. 
And feign'd a cause to bring them back. 

183 

Soon after it was fairly light. 
When they were barely out of sight, 
Ey order they were follow'd up, 
And charged with taking Joseph's cup. 

184 

The strategem was from them hid, 
And thus they answered: God forbid 
That we should do this grievous thing, 
And thus on us this trouble bring. 

185 

They thought that none had done the deed, 
And hence, with one accord, agreed, 
That he, with whom the cup was found, 
Should die, and all the rest be bound. 

186 

This offer did the steward please. 
And his apparent wrath appease. 
But he conditions lighter made — 
The blame on one alone he laid. 

187 

The one with whom the cup was found. 
To him as servant should be bound. 
That one, and that alone, he claim'd; 
The rest, he said, should not be blamed. 

188 

Upon the ground their sacks were laid, 
And search from first to last was made, 
And after searching all around, 
With Benjamin the cup was found. 

189 

From great surprise their clothes they rent, 
Then turn'd and to the city went. 
And stood before their brother's face, 
And earnestly implored his grace. 

190 

Past crimes the men did so confound, 
They fell before him on the ground. 
Then Joseph, by his cunning ruse, 
His trembling brethren did accuse. 

191 

To them he said, that for the theft, 
Their youngest brother must be left; 
But all the rest he did release, 
And order'd them to go in peace. 



152 THE HIL.L.MAN FAMILY. 

192 
Then Judah being much distress'd, 
His brother Joseph thus address'd; 
"To us — thy servants mercy show, 
For thou art e'en as Pharaoh." 

193 

He recapitulated all 
The words connected with the call, 
For them to bring the youngest son, 
Which they from motives pure had done. 

194 

He stated how their father grieved 
For one of whom he'd been bereaved; 
And also how it wrung his heart, 
With this— his youngest son — to part. 

195 

And how he gave his solemn word, 
II aught to Benjamin occur'd, 
That he would ever bear the blame, 
To keep his promise was his aim. 

196 

For from a generous heart he said: 
"Make me a servant in his stead. 
I humbly pray thee let me earn 
Our brothers freedom to return." 

197 

"I dare not go without the lad, 
To make our aged father glad. 
I fear the shock would surely pave 
His way with sorrow to the grave." 

198 

While Judah thus these facts rehearsed, 
The heart of Joseph almost burst. 
So full was he of grief and pain, 
From weeping he could not refrain. 

199 

He then dispersed the wond'ring crowd, 
And from his heart he cried aloud. 
While thus his tender heart was stir'd. 
By Phar'oh's house his cries were heard. 

200 

When with his brethren left alone, 
He did, to them, himself make known. 
Then queried: "does my father live?" 
No answer could his brethren give. 

201 

His presence fill'd their minds with fear. 
'.To me," he said. "I pray come near." 
He then in hive and kindness told 
Them he was Joseph whom they sold. 



POETRY. 153 



202 



He told them not to grieve nor blame 
Themselves — by God's design he came, 
As instrument, to save the lives 
Of them, their children and their wives. 

203 

He told them of the fearful dearth, 
Which then was over all the earth; 
That God had sent him there to save 
And keep them from an early grave; 

204 

And that the useful path he trod, 
Was not mark'd out by them, but God; 
And also that God's mighty hand, 
Had made him ruler o'er the land. 

205 

He then in love and wisdom plan'd, 
For them to leave their fatherland, 
And in the land of Goshen dwell, 
And occupy both hill and dell. 

206 

"And there, (he said,) I'll nourish thee, 
Lest thou shalt come to poverty. 
Your eyes and those of Benjamin, 
Do see that I'm your long-lost kin." 

207 

"Inform my father of my state — 
How God has made me truly great, 
And that, by His Almighty hand, 
I rule o'er all Egyptian land." 

208 

Affection he did manifest 

To Benjamin and all the rest. 

His kindness all their fears dispersed, 

And then together they conversed. 

209 

And now the fame thereof was heard 
In Phar'oh's house. What had occur'd, 
With Joseph, pleased the king so well. 
He wish'd the men with him to dwell. 

210 

Without delay did Pharaoh 
His great regard for Joseph show; 
And from his generous heart, said he: 
"Say to your brethren, thus do ye." 

211 

"Put on your beasts what they can stand 
And get you to your father land, 
And take your father, progeny, 
And wives and all and come to me." 



151 THE II 1 1. 1. MAX FAMILY. 



212 

"Take wagons for your little ones — 
Your little daughters, Little sons — 
And bring your father and your wives.' 
(Thus they did and saved their lives.) 

213 

"And also disregard your stuff. 
For in this land there is enough; 
And while King Pharaoh endures, 
The good of all the land is yours." 

214 

By Joseph they were fitted out 
w,i li all the means to bring about 
The move, the king requested made, 
According to the plan he laid. 

215 

And so sent away this band 
Of brothers, to their father land. 
When at their home they did arrive, 
They said: "Our Joseph is alive." 

216 

Xow when this news was first received, 
Ey Jacob, it was not believed; 
But when the wagons all arrived, 
Old Jacob's Spiril soon revived. 

217 

Then Jacob raised his hoary head, 
And being rill'd with hope he said: 
"My son is yet alive, and I 
Will go and see him ere I die." 

218 

And Jacob) rose without delay, 

And started on the downward way 

Tow'rd Egypt, he and all he had; 

And his; and all their hearts were glad. 

219 

And soon they to Beer-sheba came, 
(An oath gave to this place its name,) 
And there he offer'd sacrifice 

To Him. who was and is All-wise. 

220 

And then in visions of the night, 
Winn darkness veiled his outward sight. 
Cod said: "I am thy father's God; 
To Egypt, fear thou not to plod. 

L'L'l 

Of thee I'll make a nation great, 
(God's promise cannot fail, 'tis fate.) 
I will go down with thee, and then 
Will surely bring thee up again. 



POETRY. 1 55 

222 

And Joseph's hand shall close thine eyes," 
To give him cheer, the Great All-Wise 
These facts to Jacob did disclose, 
Up from Beer-sheba Jacob rose. 

223 

And Jacob, wives and little ones, 
And all but men and youthful sons. 
In wagons. Phar'oh did provide, 
Wlith pleasure and ease did ride. 

224 

But every man and youthful boy, 
Their drove of cattle did employ. 
And changing prospects pleasure lent. 
To all. as on their way they went. 

225 
Their pleasant journey they pursued, 
Till they the land of Goshen view'd 
And thus by God's Almighty hand, 
Were settled on Egyptian land. 

226 

His chariot Joseph ready made; 
Himself with neatness he array'd, 
And drove to Goshen, there to meet 
His aged sire and him to greet. 

227 
Then on his father's neck he fell, 
And filial love his heart did swell. 
And while in contact thus they kept, 
From real heartfelt joy they wept. 

22S 
Now when his mind he could control. 
Both from his heart and inmost soul. 
To Joseph Jacob said: "Since I 
Have seen thy face, now let me die." 

R. S. HILLMAX. 



L56 THE HIL.LMAN FAMILY. 

Letter from Dr. R. S. Hillman to his son James at North- 
ampton, Mass., and Julia, his wife: 

Dear Jim and Jul< •: 

I hope that you'll 
Excuse me, if I write 
You. on a theme 

Which you may deem. 
(With me,) both old and trite. 



That I'm not well 

I often tell; 
Too often this occurs, 

Ruth .says, because 

She thinks it draws 
On me a shower of slurs. 



And so I've thought, 

Of late, thai naught 
Would tempt me to relate 

A word on health; 

But pains, by stealth, 
Force me on health to prate. 



And now, I will 

Affirm I'm ill; 
My nerves no healthy rill 

Pervades to fill 

With joyous thrill, 
Or aches and pains to still. 



I've long been wont 
To groan and grunt, 

Because I've been in pain. 
My system's laws 
Give me just cause, 

To every day complain. 



'Tis hard to tell 

When I was well; 
And it would doubtless seem, 

If I should be 

From ills set free, 
That I was in a dream. 



I frankly own 

I grunt and groan, 
But do not whine or fret; 

UiM-jiusc I know 

A greater woe 
Would soon my path b< si t. 



POETRY. 157 

7 

I will relate 

And frankly state, 
A few of many acts, 

(Almost jnsane,) 

Which caused the pain. 
That now my body racks. 

8 

I wont deny, 

The fact, that I 
Have been my greatest foe; 

I sow'd the seeds, 

Of various weeds, 
Which now crop out in woe. 

9 

I had, I know, 

Another foe; — 
The devil by his arts, 

Sent hellish darts 

Through vital parts; — 
To-day the puncture smarts. 
10 

He too sow'd seeds, 

Of worthless weeds, 
Within my youthful breast; 
And what has grown 
From seeds then sown, 
Proves every day a pest. 
11 

Tobacco seed 
Produced the weed, 
That operated worst 

Of any one, 
And what its done, 
Has most my system cursed. 
12 

Tobacco smoke, 

Enough to choke 
A nation, I have puff'd; 

And with the weed, 

With wormlike greed 

In very deed, 
My mouth I've often stuff 'd. 
13 

Of late, I find, 
It undermined, 

And sapp'd my base of health: 

I find it serves 
To shatter nerves, 
And tends to scatter wealth. 

14 

In this vile snare, 

Before aware 
Of danger, I was caught 

And held, until, 

Against my will, 
To sorrow I was brought. 



158 THE HILL.MAN FAMILY. 

15 

I've w ork'd too hard, 
Without regard 

To how it would effect 
My fa iling strength, 
Until at length, 

I found my body wrecked. 

16 
I've often ate, 
Until I sate 

A splendid tippet ite; 
.And then complain'd 
Because I gain'd 

A restless, sleepless night. 
17 
On holding views 
I used to muse. 

Until I caught the blues; 
.And then for days, 
Things wore a phase, 

Thai shed a dismal haze. 

IS 
The law. to gain 
Control, gives pain; 
And in its training course, 
11 seems to smite. 
My nerves aright, 
To make me feel its force. 

19 
From tip to tip 
I fee] its grip. 

From which 1 cannot slip; 
It seems lo nip 
My flesh, to sip 

My blood, and bones to strip. 

20 
To nature's law 
1 bow with awe; 

It holds me in its jaw. 
And seems to gnaw 
My nerves, and draw 

Me toward its spacious maw. 

21 

it never swerves 
From right, hut serves 

.Mi' just as i deserve, 
E'en though, in ire, 
It tills with tire 

And affects my every nerve. 

22 

Although severe, 

I do revere 
Dame nature's schooling law— 

I've been a fool! ! ! 

But from her school, 
I knowledge daily draw. 



POETRY. 159 

23 

She, in her ire, 

Burns me like fire, 
To teach me what is wrong, 

And cause my mind 

To seek to find 
The means to make me strong. 
24 

And she will burn. 

Until I learn 
To practice what I know; 

Then through each vein. 

Relieved from pain, 
A healthy rill will flow. 

25 

If I can heed, 

In every deed, 
Her teaching's I believe 

With all my heart 

I shall, in part, 
Lost health and strength retrieve. 
26 

Had I known truth, 

When in my youth, 
And walk*d in wisdom's way, 

I could employ 

My hands with joy, 
And boast of health to-day. 

27 
Tli is yarn I've spun, 

In part, for fun; 
So while on it I muse, 

And see that laws. 

Infringed, give cause, 
I don't take on the blues. 

28 

Both tame and terse, 

To you in verse, 
My story I have told. 

To me its birth, 

I think, is worth 
Its weight in purest gold. 

29 
I've freed my mind, 
And now I find, 
That I am much relieved. 
While I did prate, 
About my state, 
Much courage I received. 
30 
My wish to prate 
Does not abate; 
But lest your patience tire, 
Reluctant, I 
Will say good-by, 
And from this theme retire. 

Very respectfully yours. 

From your father, 

ROSWBLL S, 11 1 1.1, MAX. 



160 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

31 

From what I've done, 

In part, for fun, 
I now will turn aside, 

And thank the Lord, 

That my reward, 
In mercy is applied. 

32 

I thank Thee, Lord, 

That my reward, 
For wrongs, has been so mild; 

That, while I reap, 

Thy hand doth keep 
My mind from going wild. 

33 

For health I pant: — 

Lord Jesus, grant 
That I may see the day, 

When I shall be 

From ills set free, 
And health shall have full sway. 

34 

If Thou wilt aid, 

I can evade, 
In future, every wrong; 

And every day 

Thy laws obey. 
And thus grow wise and strong. 

35 
That I am strong. 
I hope ere long, 
To be allow'd to sing; 
And then I'll raise 
A song of praise, 
ToThee — my Heavenly King. 

With profound reverence, 

ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 

36 
While this story I was telling, 
With a view to useful ends, 
In my thinking I was dwelling 
With all near and dearest friends. 

37 
So, this letter is intended, 
For my brothers, sisters, all, 
Who, with me are nearest blended, 
And, who for it on me call. 

R. S. H. 



POETRY. 11)1 

Letter from Dr. R.jS. Hillman, Manchester, N. J., to James 
W. and Julia Sherman Hillman, Northampton, Mass.: 

Dr. Hillman had toiled day and night practicing medicine 
in Williamsburg for 25 years, when it became necessary for 
him to leave there because of ill-health. He therefore moved 
to Manchester, N. J., with his family, purchased a farm, tried 
to regain his health and secure a long-needed rest. 

His capital consisted of a few thousand dollars, representa- 
tive of many years' accumulations. 

He met with misfortune in respect to his farm crops and on 
May 13th, 1878 he wrote the following memorandum: 

May 13th, 1878. 

Yesterday I enjoyed the prospect of a good crop of peaches, plums, 
cherries, grapes and some apples and pears. To-day they are with- 
ered and destroyed. 

Peaches were about % inch in diameter, cherries about half 
grown. The trees were completely loaded. 

Sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes, corn, beans and all kinds of vege- 
tables, that could be injured by frost, are completely destroyed. 

I can't, as yet, decide relative to the strawberry crop, but, probably, 
that is, partially, if not wholly destroyed. If so, the frost made a 
clean sweep of all my fruits, and, consequently, all my sources of in- 
come for this year. 

All parts for miles around are served alike. 

May 16th, my strawberry crop is destroyed. The fruit is withered 
and turning black. 

R. S. H. 

The author has a fund of sympathy for Dr. Hillman's feel- 
ings at this time. His work had been crowned with pros- 
perity for 25 years, and now as old age was approaching his 
efforts were being met with failure. Soon after the foregoing 
memorandum he wrote to his sister as follows-. 

The many disappointments and losses I have experienced in con- 
nection with the cultivation of the soil in this place, on account of the 
failure of crops at times, and the low prices realized for crops when 
they did not fail, and the consequent necessity for laboring when under 
the influence of pain and debility, caused me to soliloquize as follows: 

Why was I born 

To be forlorn? 
To toil in pain for bread? 

While some have wealth, 

And perfect health. 
And are by waiters fed; 

And rest their heads, 

On downy beds, 
W r hile servants standing by, 

Both one and all, 

Obey their call, 
And all their wants supply. 



162 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

The answer's hid, 

From me, amid 
The thoughts I oft resolve 

Within my mind, 

Until I find 
They're thoughts I cannot solve. 

I once hud wealth, 

But men, by stealth, 
Induced me, (to my loss,) 

To change the gold, 

I once did hold, 
For that which proved but dross 

I once had fame, — 

Though but a name, 
It was the price of toil; 

But now, bereft, 

To die, I'm left 
Upon a barren soil. 

Though hard my lot; 

Though poor my cot; 
Though plain and scant my store, 

Than change my state, 

And pride inflate, 
I rather beg for more. 

My wants are few, 

And when I view, 
The nearness of that shore, 

Where .troubles cease, 

And all is peace, 
I feel they're almost o'er. 

If Jesus' grace, 

Has filled the place, 
Once occupied by gold. 

I'm richer far, 

Than monarchs are, 
Whose minds to wealth are sold. 

At this point in the original letter. I gave a pretty full explanation 
of my statements relative to losses, or apparent misfortunes; but it is 
unnecessary to repeat them here. 

I find by reference to your letter, that I have overlooked one sub- 
ject, viz.: Your visit to Ozro's nice residence. 

You gave a hint relative to the style in which he lived. 

My reply was: 

My house is but. 

What's eall'd a hut; 
Its furniture is scant; 

And like my cot, 

The scanty lot, 
Is all inelegant. 

Now Dear Sister, you may think from some of the pictures I have 
drawn that we are cast down in our spirits, and mourn, because we 
came to this place. Not so; I have never seen the day since I came 
here, that I could say I was sorry I came, and that things had turned 
as they have. 



POETRY. 163 

Every dollar I have lost in my experience here, has il no- 

thing towards leading us into a condition to become heirs to an Ln.heri- 
tance, that will not pass away. 

As our earthly goods pass away, we become the more anxious to lay 
up a treasure in Heaven. 

When we reflect upon the extreme plainness of the house we live 
in, strong desires arise in our minds, to be prepared to inhabit one of 
those mansions prepared for the blest in Heaven. 

When our earthly habiliments grow old and shattered, and loo 
their luster, we yearn for those garments, which shine the brighter 
the longer they are worn. 

By these means, in the dispensation of a kind Providence, we have 
arrived at a point, where we place no value upon any amount of this 
world's goods, (for our own personal use,) beyond what is necessary 
to pay our passage on our journey to the end of our earthly existence. 

Beyond this, we hope, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
to be inch. 

That the perusal of these pages, may afford you comfort and 
pleasure in your old age, and that the ideas contained in them, may 
beget in your mind, strong aspirations to become able to throw off 
every earthly weight that tends to prevent your thoughts from soaring 
far above the things of earth, is the sincere prayer of 

Your affectionate brother, 

ROSWBLL S. HILLMAN. 



164 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

Soon after the Mill River Disaster at Williamsburg, Mass., 
in 1874, Dr. llillman wrote the following verses: 

Your remarks relative to the frequency of deaths, among our 
friends and acquaintances, and their consequent separation from 
earthly treasures, I canimt reply to in a better way than by giving 
expression to ideas that were generated in my mind soon after the 
great disaster at Williamsburgh. 

The life of man 

Is but a span; 
He breathes but one short breath; 

lb' upe's his cj'i'S, 

Looks with surprise, 
And closes them in death. 

Life's but begun 

Ere it is done. 
Man comes into the world. 

And strives for pow'r, 

For one short hour, 
And then from earth is hurled. 

Then 'tis in vain, 

To strive to gain, 
Renown, or wealth, or pow'r; 

Because they may 

Be swept away, 
In one departing hour. 



POETRY. 1Q5 

The following is an interesting letter from Dr. Hillman to 

sister Elizabeth Hillman Field of North Hatfield, Mass., from 

Manchester, N. J., about Jan. 1878: 

Manchester, N. J. 
Dear Sister Elizabeth: — 

In your letter of Dec. 20th. you expressed a wish that I would 
favor you with a duplicate of the letter I sent you in September. I 
can't do it; because I have forgotten much of the language contained 
in it, and, also, the arrangement of it. Eut I have your letter, to which 
mine was an answer, and will endeavor to answer it again, in accord- 
ance with my present condition for thinking. The answer will vary 
in some respects, according as my present condition varies from that 
in which I wrote in September. 

In your letter you asked some questions and made some state- 
ments, which I will answer and reply to, as far, and as well, as my 
condition will permit. 

First. You ask: How are you and Ruth? 

Of late we've found, 
We're homeward bound, 
On lifes tempestuous sea; — 

We are so near, 

We almost peer 
Into eternity. 

Our bark is seen 

To oft careen, 
According as we feel, 

From side to side, 

And don't abide 
With firmness on its keel. 

O for the weal 

To always feel, 
If Christ is in the keel, 

Though tempests howl, 

And thunders growl, 
Our vessel will not reel. 

Though waves may dash, 

And madly splash 
All o'er our little ship, 

Through ocean's foam. 

To th' Christian's home, 
She's sure to make the trip. 

We will confide 

In Christ to guide 
Our bark o'er life's rough tide, 

And near his side, 

In humble pride, 
We will triumphant ride. 

As we've been taught, 

We own we've naught; — - 
In Christ we make our bo;i 1 

For by this grace 

We're taught to face, 
And rout the fiendish host. 



L66 THE HILL.MAX FAMILY. 

i Sou say "I dofi'1 expect to see you again in this wrurld, 
unless you come to u. ; and then exclaim, how sad the thought!" 

tf we were young, with the prospect of a long life before us, with 
.•ill the chances for meeting cul off, it would indeed be sad; but when 
we take into consideration oui age, and what is sure soon to come 
as the result of old age, ills'' dew before the morning sun, all sadness 
disappears under the warning influence of the thought, that we soon 
<l:;i II iii. e1 t" pa ri no moi i . 

Whether we ire permitted to meet again or not in this world. 

May we be pure, 

And thp cross endure 
With path nee to the end; 

And win the prize, 

And to it rise, 
And with the angels blend. 

Where'er we are, 

O may we share 
A faith so firm and strong. 

That with the wise, 

We may arise 
And join the Heav'nly throng. 

Third. You say: "It is my desire that you and I, my dear 
brother, may so live, that we may have a happy reunion with those 
dear ones who have gone before us to that better and brighter world." 

Well, my ever dear sister, the desire you express, is the effect of 
a cause which can be traced back to thinking. Thinking generates 
thoughts; thoughts generate desire; desire prompts to action, and 
actions constitute what you mean by living; which may be good, bad 
or Indifferent, according to our thinking. 

Our life or living then, is in accordance with our actions; our 
actions in accordance with our desires; our desires in accordance with 
our thoughts, and our thoughts are in accordance with our thinking. 

Thinking is the starting point. If we obtain a correct starting 
point, and follow in the direction the compass points, the end sought 
is sure to be gained. 

It is plain to be seen, that thinking is the base or foundation upon 
which the whole superstructure of life or living, (course of conduct,) 
rests. 

Two persons thinking — the one wisely, and the other unwisely, 
will be led in, exactly, opposite directions; because, 

• An unwise thinking forms a school, 
In which a man becomes a fool; 
But thinking wisely makes the sage, 
And does the ills of life assuage. 

You and I were not brought up in ignorance of a correct starting 
point, nor left to grope our way in darkness, without a compass, by 
which to he guided to the full fruition of that condition, you so earn- 
estly desire. 

We have been taught. 

That Christ has bought, 
For us, a pass to Heaven. 

If we believe. 

And will receive 
The pass, 'tis freely given. 



Poetry. 167 



That to release 

And bring us peace, 
He did to earth descend. 

From Heaven above, 

On wings of love, 
And show'd Himself our friend. 

And did bestow 

On us below, 
A love without alloy; — 

Did kindly show 

What we must sow. 
To reap eternal joy. 

That He did ope 

The door of hope, 
To all who seek release, 

From doubt and woe. 

And wish to go 
The way to life and peace. 

That He was slain. 

For acts, to gain 
A transport to the skies, 

For those inclined, 

In heart, to find 
A home among the wise. 

That He did die, 

And thus did buy 
A ransom for the lost. 

'T would us surprise, 

To realize 
The sacrifice it cost. 

Such wond'rous love, 

Is far above 
What we can comprehend. 

May we adore 

Him, evermore. 
And strive, with Him to blend. 

Most Holy Tjord, 

May we accord, 
To Thee, unbounded praise; 

And from our choice, 

A cheerful voice, 
In adoration raise. 

With heartfelt joy, 

May we deploy, 
With firmness, to the right, 

And gain the ground. 

Where those are found. 
Who've put their foes to flight. 

In His sacrifice for us, This Noblest Personage, that ever graced 
the earth, manifested a thousand times more regard for us, than we 
manifest for ourselves. 

He has left nothing undone on His part, to prevenl us from feel- 
ing the fullest assurance that we may ere long enjoy a degree of hap- 



168 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

piness, (arising from a reunion with those who have passed beyond 
the reach of sorrow,) thai is far above our present capacity to esti- 
ma te. 

You attribute all our blessings, t<> our Heavenly Father; and well 
j .hi may. 

God only knows. 
How freely flows, 
The blessings He bestows, 
in love, on those, 

Who turn from woes 
To seek, in Christ, repose. 

Sou say: "I feel the infirmites of age creeping over me." 
So do I. and, 

I'm growing gray, 

And well I may; 
For sixty troubl'ous years, 

Have o'er me coursed, 
To earth, midst doubts and fears. 

Since I was forced. 

You say: "You and I are going the downward way." 
Yes, 

W'.'ic Hunting down the stream of time, 
O may we anchor in that clime, 
Where saints and holy angels dwell. 
In peace, with King Immanuel. 

You say: "We have but a few short years to stay at longest." 
This statement is evidently true, because, 

Our flesh is grass, 

And soon will pass 
The ordeal of decay. 

Our spirits will. 

Their missions till. 
And pass to endless day. 

A heav'nly host 

Stand on the coast, 
Beyond the rolling tide, 

With ready ha ml. 

To help us land. 
Where loving friends abide. 

Lord, wilt Thou bless. 

And rightly dress 
Our spirits for their flight: 

And (), we pray 

Thee, to array 
Our souls in spotless white. 

O break the ties 

That blind our eyes; 
And make us truly wise, 

That we may prize 

The glorious guise, 
In which Thy saints arise. 



POETRY. If,! I 

Thou All-Wise, 
Who hears our cries, 

And all our wants supplies. 

May we arise, 

In wrapt surprise, 
To mansions in the skies. 

Now to Thy Name, 

Whose blood-bought fame, 
Is spread from shore to shore, 

Be glory given. 

In earth and Heaven, 
Both now and evermore. 

You say: "One after another of our friends and acquaintances 
are passing away." 
Well, 

We, soon shall be 
From earth made free. 
Time soon will break the cord 
That binds to earth. 
And show the worth 
Of faith in Christ — the Lord. 

You speak of our negligence in connection with the subject of our 
highest good. 

In reply I will say: 

With pure intent, 

My life I've spent, 
In seeking after truth 

With all my mind, 

I've sought to find, 
The way to endless youth. 

The measures taught 

In books, I bought; — 
They soon conviction brought, 

That Chidst had wrought, 

The means I sought, 
To bring decay to naught. 

In faith that I 

Should never die, 
For many years I sung; 

And vainly thought, 

As I was taught, 
I should be ever young. 

That faith is tried, 
And don't abide; 
For still I'm growing old, 
And every day 

1 find decay 

Is taking deeper hold. 

I now believe, 

The glorious eve 
Of that evenful day, 

When men will cease 

To know decease, 
Is fixed, but far away. 



170 THE HILLM.W FAMILY. 

The lever that will 

Work out all ill. 
Is working through tin- world; 

And every wrong 

Will be, ere long. 
Into oblivion hurled. 

Then men will feed 

As they have need. 
On fruits, with virtues rife, 

To generate, 

In them, a state 
Of never ending life. 

Time's rapid wing, 

Is sure to bring 
Around the glorious day. 

When Christ will reign, 

And sin. and pain, 
And death will pass away. 

In coming time. 

Mankind will chime 
In songs of constant youth; 

And one and all, 

Both great and small. 
Will feel and know the truth. 

You touch upon one subject, that leads me to the thought that a 
man may amass millions of this worlds goods, and yet appear a bank- 
rupt at the court of Heaven. 

And again, like Christ, that a man may have nowhere to lay his 
head in this life, and yet be in a condition to go shouting home to 
glory, with the full assurance that he is coming into possession of a 
rich inheritance, that will he as enduring as the Heavens or the Word 
of God, which cannot fail. 

While we give our whole mind and body to the acquisition of 
earthly treasures, we do not seek to lay up a treasure in Heaven. 

While we seek with an earnest zeal for earthly aggrandizement, 
and to make a prominent show in the world, we care but little how 
we appear before God and the Heavenly host. 

While we make use of all our energies, to adorn the body in such 
a manner as to outshine our neighbor, we cannot have a very strong 
desire to have the soul and spirit robed in righteousness. 

While we put forth every effort of our God-given powers and 
faculties to weight our minds down to earth, we have no disposition 
to rise above its polluted atmosphere. 

We cannot bestow our whole mind upon one object, and have any 
left to bestow upon an other. We cannot serve two masters. 

A wrong with right, 

We can't unite; 
Nor God and mammon serve; 

We for the one, 

With patience run, 
And from the other swerve. 

We try to do, 

In serving two. 
What can't be done, but cleave 

In heart and mind 

To one, and find 
That we the other leave. 



POETRY. 171 

We're left to choose, 

In freedom, whose 
Dominion we will feel. 

As in our choice, 

So will a voice 
Proclaim our woe or weal. 

While we serve mammon, our selfishness forces us to take, if pos- 
sible, the best end of every bargain we make, and to disregard the 
injunction — "do unto others as ye would they should do unto you." 

In the service of mammon, our aim and object in life, is to gratify 
self; and consequently, we shall not be very likely to love our neigh- 
bor well enough to prevent us from taking his last dollar, if we can 
do it in accordance with human laws and customs. 

A man cannot become vastly rich in this world's goods, if he is a 
genuine servant of God, because he will act in accordance with the 
golden rule, and take from his neighbor no more than he would be 
willing to give, under similar circumstances. 

And again, because, as soon as he acquires more than is of us.' to 
him, the injunction is presented to his view, in Bold Letters, "Sell that 
thou hast and give to the poor." ' 



1 7L ; THE HILL.MAX FAMILY. 

Manchester, Ocean Co., X. J.. June 1st, '79. 
Our very dear Mrs. Vining: — 

Tout very welcome letter of May 10th, was duly received and 
perused with pleasure and satisfaction. The photograph which it 
brought to us. we greeted with a kiss, as a token of the Christian fel- 
lowship, sympathy and regard, which we entertain for her whose face 
it so faithfully portrays. 

You expressed a wish in your letter, to learn how we are getting 
along spirit ually. 

Since we visited you. perhaps Cor the last time while in our present 
state of existence, 

1 

With pure intent 

Much time we've spent 
In seeking after truth; 

With all our mind 

We've sought to find 
The way to endless youth. 

2 

The measures taught. 

In books, we bought; — 
They soon conviction brought, 

That Christ had wrought 

The means we sought. 
To bring decay to naught. 

3 

In faith that we 

Should never see 
Corruption, once we sung; 

And vainly thought, 

As writings taught, 
We should be ever young. 

4 

That faith is tried 

And dont abide; 
For still we're growing old, 

And every day 

We find decay 
Is taking stronger hold. 

5 

We think we must 

Put off <>ur dust; 
That time will break the cord 

That binds to earth 

And show the worth 
Of faith in Christ — the Lord. 

6 

We still believe 

The glorious eve 
Of that eventful day, 

When men will cease 

To know decease 
Is set and on its way. 



POETRY. 173 



7 
The leaven that will 
Work out all ill. 

Is working in the world, 
And every wrong, 
Will be, ere long, 

To dark oblivion hurl'd. 



Then men will feed, 

As they have need, 
On fruits with virtues rife 

To generate 

In them a state 
Of never ending life. 

9 

Times rapid wing. 

Is sure to bring 
Around the glorious day. 

When Christ will reign, 

And sin, and pain, 
And death will pass away. 

10 

And in that day 

Christ will array 
Us in immortal youth, 

And we, and all, 

Both great and small, 
Shall feel and know the truth. 

11 

Now this helief 

Affords relief 
From doubts of Jesus' care: 

Removes the gloom 

Within the tond>, 
And makes our future fair. 

We often express the wish that we could spend a few hours in 
conversation with you, but we are of the opinion that such a favor 
will not be granted, because, 

1 
We look upon our setting sun, 
And think our race is almost run. 
We are reminded every day. 
That we may shortly pass away. 
Some sign betokens every hour. 
That worms our flesh may soon devour. 

2 
Our bark is seen 
To oft careen, 
According a,s we feel, 
From side to side, 
And don't abide 
With firmness on its keel. 



174 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

Again. 

1 

Our flesh is grass, 

And soon may pass 
The process <>f decay; 

Our spirits may 

The forfeil pay, 
And pass from earth away. 

2 

A heavenly host 

St;m.ls nn the coast, 
Beyond the rolling tide. 

With ready hand, 

To help us land 
Where loving friends abide. 

3 
But we confide 
In Christ, to guide 

Us o'er the rolling tide; 

And, near His side 

In humble pride 
We shall triumphant ride. 

4 

•Old Zion's Ship" 

Will make the trip, 
As Jesus forms her keel, 
Though tempests howl 
And thunders growl, 
"Old Zion" will not reel. 

5 
Though waves may dash 
And madly splash 

All o'er "Old Zion's Ship," 
Through ocean foam 
To th' Christian's home, 

She's sure to make the trip. 

6 
As we've been taught, 
We own we're naught; — 

In Christ we make our boast, 
And by His grace 
We seek a place 

Among the heavenly host. 



POETRY. 175 

A SONG IN PRAISE OF JESUS. 

To show you how we get along, 
In spirit, we will sing a song, 
In praise of Jesus Christ — Our Lord. 
To Whom all glory we accord. 

SONG. 

To our Lord and Saviour Jesus, 
Our best love and praise belong: 
For, from doubts and fears He frees us, 
And He makes our Spirits strong. 

He by trials has been purging 
Us from error, doubt and gloom; — 
Lazarus-like we're now emerging 
From the darkness of the tomb. 

Rays of heavenly light are beaming 
On our once benighted mind; 
Big with hopes our minds are teeming, 
Casting all our fears behind. 

Trials sore once made us fearful 

Of some sad and horrid doom; 

But our faith now makes us cheerful, 

For it drives away all gloom. 

Though those trials were distressing. 
In a dark and fearful guise, 
They were sent to leave a blessing. 
And to break our useless ties. 

Christ, from many faults, has freed us 
Yet we see we've many more; 
But He condescends to lead us, 
Till above them we can soar. 

We, by Him, are being sifted, 
To remove from us our chaff; 
And, by Him, we're daily lifted 
To life's fount from which we quaff. 

We will say. to crown our story. 
In the Christ alone we trust. 
And to Him be all the glory. — 
He alone can make us just. 

He is constantly defeating 
Satan's plans our hopes to raze, 
And His work in us completing. 
To His everlasting praise. 

Many a dart from Satan's quiver, 
Aim'd at us, He's turn'd aside, 
Which would made our spirits shiver, 
Had we not on Him relied. 



176 THE HILL.MAN FAMILY. 

He has changed our clouds and sadness, 
I!y inspiring us with hope, 
Inl<> sunshine and to gladness, 
Leaving us no cause to mope 

He has smooth'd our rumpled pillows, 
And made sofl as down our beds; 
And, when plunged beneath rough billows, 
He has buoy'd our sinking heads. 

lb- has made our earthly troubles, 
Which so often caused unrest, 
Seem as light as floating bubbles, 
And with peace our minds has blest. 

For, though waves of death are surging 
All around our outward forms, 
Tow'rd that perfecl peace we're verging. 
Which outrides the wildest storms. 

Jesus' arms are us inclosing, 

Freeing us from every harm; 

On His breast we're now reposing. 

Hopeful, peaceful and calm. 

Doubts of Jesus' care are groundless; 
Because, for us His purest love, 
Is as deep and broad and boundless. 
As the vast expanse above. 

For He gave His life to save us, 

Showing love without alloy; 

And when "dead in sin," He gave us 

Hopes of endless life and joy. 

As He had an earthly mother, 
And became allied to earth. 
He will be our elder brother, 
When we reach the higher birth. 

Now that we can be related. 
By adoption, to God's son. 
Causes us to be elated, 
And to say: God's will be done. 

When mankind can call Him Brother, 
They in mind will be as one: 
Then in serving one another. 
Heaven on earth will be began. 

Very respectfully yours, 

ROSWELL S. AND RUTH F. HILLMAN. 



A SONG OF PRATSE TO JESUS. 

Another song we now will sing, 
To Him Who took away the sting 
Of death, and open'd up a way 
For us to reach eternal day. 



POETRY. 177 



SONG. 

We adore Thee, Lord, and praise Thee; 
We Thy attributes admire; 
And Thy dealings daily raise Thee, 
In our estimation higher. 

For the good which Thou hast done us 
We will sing to Thee in praise. 
By Thy kindness Thou hast won us, 
And to Thee our thanks we raise. 

We will praise Thee, Lord, for routing 
All our doubts and all our fears; 
And we feel like loudly shouting — 
Thou hast wiped away our tears. 

All our troubles Thou hast lighten'd, 
By begetting in us hope; 
And our pathway Thou hast brighten'd, 
Leaving us no cause to grope. 

Condemnation once oppress'd us, 
Causing anguish and despair; 
But with pardon Thou hast blest us, 
And removed all anxious care. 

While our threads of life are breaking, 
One by one, and causing pains, 
Thou, O Lord, art kindly taking 
Us from low to higher plains. 

To extol Thee we are eager; 
Thee in praise we would address; 
But our language is too meager, 
All Thy goodness to express. 

When our highest praise is sounded, 
Its report of Thee is slight, 
For Thy Greatness is unbounded; — 
We are like the tiny mite. 

But to us Thou art most gracious, 
Loving, merciful and kind; 
And the faith and hope are spacious, 
Which Thou hast to us consign'd. 

By Thy goodness Thou hast taught us 
To Thy guidance to submit; 
And in mercy Thou hast brought us 
Gladly at Thy feet to sit. 

While our minds were being humbled, 
That we might by Thee be led, 
At our lot we often grumbled, 
And our minds were fill'd with dread. 

But we're now in Thee confiding, 
Feeling that we're truly blest, 
While in mercy Thou art guiding 
Us to joy and peace and rest. 

Thou dost comfort us and please us 
By Thy kind and winning ways. — 
O Thou Great and Glorious Jesus 
Please accept our humble praise. 

With profound Reverence and Veneration, 

ROSWBLL S. AND RUTH F. HILLMAN. 



178 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

Manchester, June 22nd, 1879. 
Dear James and Julia: — 

Ey referring to a letter which I sent you in May, 1878, you will 
find a conditional promise. 

1 

That I would raise 

A song of praise 
To Christ my heavenly King. 

Although not strong, 

In frame, that song, 
I'm now inclined to sing. 
2 

To our Lord and Saviour Jesus, 
Our best love and praise belong; 
For from (fear of death) He frees us, 
And He makes our spirits strong. 

3 
He, by trials, has been purging 
Us from error doubt and gloom; — 
Lazarus-like we're now emerging 
From the darkness of the tomb. 

4 
Rays of heavenly light are beaming 
On our once benighted mind; 
Big with hopes our minds are teeming. 
Casting all our fears behind. 

5 
Trials sore once made us fearful 
Of some sad and horrid doom; 
But our faith now makes us cheerful. 
For it drives away all gloom. 

6 

Though those trials were distressing. 
In a dark and fearful guise, 
They were sent to leave a blessing, 
And to break our useless ties. 

7 
Christ from many faults has freed us, 
Yet we see we've many more; 
But He condescends to lead us, 
Till above them we can soar. 

8 

We by Him are being sifted, 

To remove from us our chaff; 

And by Him we're daily lifted 

To life's fount from which we quaff. 

9 

We will say, to crown our story; 
In the Christ alone we trust; 

And to Him we yield all glory — 
He alone can make us just. 

10 
He is constantly defeating 
Satan's plans our hopes to raze. 
And His work in us completing, 
To His everlasting praise. 



POETRY. 179 

11 
Many a dart from Satan's quiver, 
Aim'd at us, He's turn'd aside, 
Which would have made our spirits shiver, 
Had we not on Him relied. 

12 

He has changed our clouds and sadness, 
By inspiring- us with hope, 
Into sunshine and to gladness, 
Leaving us no cause to mope. 
13 

He has smooth'd our rumpled pillows, 
And made soft as down our beds; 
And when plunged beneath rough billows, 
He has buoy'd our sinking heads. 
14 

He has made our earthly troubles, 
Which so often caused unrest, 
Seem as light as floating bubbles, 
And our minds with peace has blest. 

15 
Though tempestuous waves are surging 
All around our outward forms, 
Tow'rd that perfect peace we're verging, 
Which outrides the wildest storms. 

16 

Jesus' arms are us inclosing, 

Freeing us from every harm; 

On His breast we're now reposing, 

Hopeful, peaceful and calm. 

17 

Doubts of Jesus' care are groundless 

For, for us His purest love, 

Is as deep and broad and boundless, 

As the vast expanse above. 

18 

For, He gave His life to save us, 
Showing loA r e without alloy 
And, when "dead in sin" He gave us 
Hopes of endless life and joy. 

19 
As He had an earthly mother, 
And became allied to earth, 
He will be our elder brother, 
When we reach another birth. 

20 

Now, that we can be related, 
By adoption, to God's Son, 
Causes us to be elated 
And to say: God's will be done. 

21 
When we all can call Him brother 
We in mind will be as one; 
Then in serving one another 
Heaven on earth will be begun. 



180 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

22 
We believe that day is breaking 
For its rays around us play 
While from dozing we're awaking 
To that bright and new born day. 

23 

For the honor and the glory 
Of our Lord and best of friends, 
We have told this honest story 
With a view to useful ends. 

Letter from Dr. Hillman, Manchester, N. J., June 22nd, 1879, 
to James and Julia Hillman, Northampton, Mass.: 

Manchester, N. J., Sept. 20th, 1879. 

Dear Children: — 

I'm inclined to write a letter, 
Or epistolary note, 
To inform you that I'm better, 
Than when last to you I wrote. 

I in health am slowly gaining, 
And it seems to me quite odd, 
Not to be each day complaining, 
Of the smart from Nature's rod. 

In hard work I now take pleasure, 
And a lively interest, 
Not to hoard up earthly treasure, 
But to be with comforts blest. 

From your father, 

ROSWELL S. HILLMAN. 

Letter from Dr. Hillman to James and Julia Hillman, North- 
ampton, Mass. : 

This letter indicates that he was feeling better, and in a 
much more cheerful and happier frame of mind. But it was 
for only a very brief period, for two months later his wife Ruth 
was taken from him. On Dec. 20th, 1879 Dr. Hillman wrote 
to his sister Julia expressing his feelings since his wife had 
gone and he was left alone. Following is a copy of the letter. 
The writer has the most profound respect for the expression 
of feelings contained therein. Such sorrow comes but once in 
a life-time, and it seemed almost too much of a burden for him 
to bear: 

Manchester, Ocean Co., N. J., Dec. 20th, '79. 

Dear Sister: — 

For the last six weeks I have been almost daily thinking about 
visiting you, but I am obliged to give up the idea for the present, from 
the fact that I cannot make the necessary arrangements for leaving 
home. 



POETRY. 181 

It would afford me great pleasure to visit you and all my brothers 
and sisters in Williamsburgh and vicinity. And O, how it would inspire 
my mind with pleasure, to see once more, those lofty hills over which 
I used to ride by day and by night, for the purpose of trying to alle- 
viate human suffering. 

In my imagination I have often been there and lived over the 
scenes which transpired in days which have long since passed into 
eternity. 

Like the veteran warrior, who sits in his old arm chair, and. in 
imagination, fights over again and again, the battles which he fought, 
in reality, in his younger days, I sit in my old arm chair, while 
memory takes me back to the days of my childhood, when an "occa- 
sional change of toys made me happy; to the days of my youth, when 
I began to lose my relish for childish toys, and my breast began to 
heave with aspirations for knowledge, by which to render myself useful 
in the world; to the days of my early manhood, when I thought I had 
come out a full blown doctor, and when my mind was fired up with 
ambition to make a mark in the world, that would not disgrace my- 
self or my friends. 

Pictured on memory's walls, I see myself seated in my carriage, 
behind Old Tiger, driving at almost railroad speed, anxious to get to 
the patient, as soon as possible, who. by his friends and attendants is 
thought to be dying. I enter his dwelling and find him surrounded 
by weeping friends. I approach the bed-side, and calmly and care- 
fully make an examination, and discover some slight symptoms which 
indicate the possibility of recovery. My thoughts, feelings and hopes 
relative to the case, are manifested in my face. The patient and 
friends read them. Their tears are wiped away. Their countenances 
brighten as their hopes revive, and all are ready to do my bidding for 
the purpose of promoting the comfort and recovery of the patient. 

In the dispensation of Providence, I am permitted to see him re- 
cover. The patient rejoices, the friends rejoice, and I rejoice; and the 
general rejoicing forms one more bright spot, (in addition to the many 
which have been formed by similar circumstances,) in the history of 
my life as a physician. 

In another view, I see myself riding at full speed, homeward 
bound, in anticipation of meeting my brothers and sisters and their 
companions and children, in the evening, in the form of a surprise 
party at father's. I arrive at home and am lucky enough to find no 
call to take me away. 

After dark, to avoid being seen by father and mother, the Hillman 
Tribe come, some from one direction, and some from another, and all 
center at my house, for the purpose of marching in a solid body to the 
opposite shore, (across the bridge). Jim is sent over to engage 
father's attention in a game of checkers in the kitchen, to enable us 
to enter the sitting room unobserved. 

When all necessary arrangements are made, we leave my house, 
each one being loaded with something designed to gratify our palates. 
We march in single file across the bridge and enter the house in 
accordance with our arrangements. We stand in the sitting room, 
which is not lighted, still holding the good things, which are soon to 
grace the tables. We screw our mouths into the proper shape Cor 
singing Old Hundred. Just as the abdominal muscles begin to con- 
tract for the purpose of forcing air. from the lungs, through the vocal 
organs to cause them to vibrate. Lo! and Behold!!! Father (having 
started for the sitting room to get something pertaining to the checker- 
board,) opens the door, throws up both hands, and exclaims, in a-loud- 
tone: Ooooooooh! ! ! ! Well, — we — don't — sing — Old Hundred, 

The abdominal muscles, which were strained up Cor thai purpose, 
spend their force in producing loud and long continued laughter. 



182 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

Mirthfulness having- partially subsided, we throw off all superflu- 
ous apparel, and proceed to business. 

We have no Board of Directors, but each one seems to know just 
what to do, in order to carry out the programme with ease, elegance 
and dispatch. Some haul out the tables; some spread the cloths; 
some arrange the dishes; some supply the tables with knives and 
forks; some are cooking oysters, while others are loading the tables 
with the good things which our sisters and sisters-in-law, have dis- 
played their ability and skill in cooking. 

In about fifteen minutes alter we entered the house, we are all 
seated around the tables, and, having divested our minds of all anxiety 
and care, and having, for the time, forgotten the fact, that disappoint- 
ments and sorrow, pain and death, are sure to fall to the lot of each 
and every one of us, we are discussing the merits of the different 
dishes, cracking jokes, and enjoying as much real happiness as it 
is possible for mortals to enjoy in a world where it is known that 
every pleasure soon passes away, and is sure to be followed by sorrow. 

The feast being over, our Brother Ozro reads a poem (composed 
by himself for the occasion), which we pronounce very appropriate. 

We now repair to the parlor, where brief speeches are made, in 
connection with presents to our aged parents. Father receives his 
presents with a good degree of manly fortitude. But mother receives 
a twenty dollar bill, and her chest begins to heave, and her lips begin 
to quiver. She receives a ten on top of the twenty, and her tears do 
freely flow. Susan — kind soul — now comes forward and presents her 
with a towel about two yards in length, and requests her, with it, to 
wipe her tears away. 

THE CURTAIN DROPS. 

My reverie is broken, and I find that I have only been viewing 
the pictures of scenes which I painted on the canvas of my mind, 
many years in the past, and which can never, in reality, be repeated. 

I awake to present realities, and find myself still sitting in my 
old arm chair, here in the New Jersey pines, alone, alone, all alone; 
lonely, lonely beyond description. 

The bodies of about one-fourth of all those who composed the 
joyful party, described above, lie moulding in the grave. Father, 
Mother, Belle, Louisa and Charley Cowan, passed away one after 
another, as the years rolled by, and — now — that voice, which often 
Cheered me on in my journey of life, when my steps were faltering, is 
hushed in the cold embrace of death. The hand which often soothed 
my aching head, when worn and wearied by the various cares which 
devolved upon me, lies buried in New Jersey soil. 

She who afforded me companionship for the period of forty years, 
and shared my joys and my sorrows, and who was more to me than 
all the world beside, has gone to try the realities of Eternity. 

I am left behind, with an aching void within my breast, which 
all the world is too small to fill; left without any hopes which can 
afford me satisfaction, except the hope, that, through the merciful 
kindness of Our Lord and Savious. .Jesus Christ. I shall soon be per- 
mitted to join her, and our kindred and friends, (who have left the 
shores of time,) in a brighter sphere id' existence, where sorrows and 
partings will never more be felt or feared. 

Six weeks have passed away since I was bereft of the foundation of 
all my earthly joys, and still I feel just as sad, and lonely as I did 
on the day of parting, and even more so. 

There is a constant aching sensation in the region of my heart, 
which seems to pierce my vital powers, and destroy my interest in, 
and energy to, work, read or write. This condition causes me to ex- 
claim: 



POETUV. 183 

My sorrows cause, within my breast, 
A pain, from which I find no rest; 
I muse and muse until my brain, 
As well as breast, is rill'd with pain. 

At times, waves of grief dash over me with a force, that causes 
me to break out in the following strains: . 

O, my heart, my heart is bleeding! 
Grief all earthly joy devours; 
Bitter, bitter grief is feeding, 
Daily, on my vital powers. 

I am sad, and grave, and lonely; 
Consolation none impart; 
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus only, 
Can relieve my aching heart. 

In this world I cannot single 
Out one sympathizing friend, 
Who, with me in thought can mingle 
Or with me in feeling blend. 

In the future, all looks pleasant; 
There I hope to find repose; 

But O, Oh!! in the present, 
How I feel no mortal knows. 

My sorrows would my mind o'erwhelm, 
If Jesus did not hold the helm. 

With blessings He my way can pave, 
And smooth my passage to the grave. 

Dear Ruth is free to wing her way, 
To blissful realms of endless day; 
But I, perhaps,. am doom'd to stay, 
On earth for years incased in clay. 

If this be so, I humbly pray, 
That Thou, O Lord, wilt let a ray, 
Of Heavenly light around me play, 
To light me on my lonely way. 

Since she, who was to me most dear, 
Was call'd to leave this earthly sphere, 
It seems so cold and dark and drear, 
My earthly prospects sad appear. 

I mope around and muse alone, 
And feel that I'm almost a drone; 
For feelings, which within me lurk, 
Destroy my interest in work. 

Time does not heal the dreadful wound, 
Produced by parting ties, which bound 
To me, as close as is my life, 
My noble; kind and loving wife. 

The workings in my mind, by stealth. 
Are daily feeding on my health; 
And feeble health, in turn, I find, 
Is daily feeding on my mind. 



184 THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 

And thus my body and my mind, 
Together seem to be combined, 
To fill the void, within, with woe, 
Unless Thou, Lord, dost help bestow. 

Without Thy help, from bitter grief, 
I never can obtain relief. 
Thou, only, can'st my spirit bless, 
With freedom from its lonesomeness. 

Thou, Lord, can'st fill the aching void, 
Which has, my strength to work, destroy'd; 
And Thou can'st help me to employ 
My mind and hands with real joy. 

Help me, in useful works, to use 
My mind and hands, and then diffuse 
Thy spirit through my feeble frame, 
That I may glorify Thy name. 

My prospects in this earthly sphere 
Look dark and dismal cold and drear; 
But on beyond, bright scenes appear 
And give my mind a heartfelt cheer. 

I thank Thee, Lord, for faith in Thee; 
Through it, beyond this life, I see 
Some scenes, portray'd by Thee, which buoy 
Me up and give my spirit joy. 

Although my affections have been severely lacerated, and still lie 
bleeding, I do not murmur at, or complain of, Providence. I know 
that the good Lord does all things well, and that He will, eventually, 
over-rule the circumstances which surround me, for my best good. 

In the mid'st of all my feelings of desolation, deep down within 
my being, I enjoy a calm resignation to the will of. the Great Over- 
Rider of the destinies of mankind. 

I am not sufficiently selfish, to call Ruth back, to resume her suf- 
fering, if I could; but I would give worlds, if I had them, if I could 
have her with me in the enjoyment of good health. 

The thought, that, that can never be, 
Brings sorrow, pain and grief to me. 
Above this thought, I'll strive to rise, 
Through Christ, and meet her in the skies. 

For many years Ruth was in possession of a constant and unwav- 
ering faith in the willingness and ability of the Lord .Jesus Christ, to 
confer upon her a blissful immortality beyond the grave; and, conse- 
quently, was not afraid to make the plunge from time into Eternity. 

In anticipation of a separation from her body, she prepared gar- 
ments for enshrouding it, when it ceased to be inhabited, and, a tew 
hours before they were needed, she told me where to find them, and 
gave other directions relative to management, after her decease, with 
a degree of calmness, resignation and cheerfulness, which demonstrates 
the fact, that genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, is capable of 
disrobing death of all its terror, and, of transforming it into a pearly 
gate which opens into the Paradise of God. 

Notwithstanding the disappointments and losses, pecuniarily, 
which fell to our lot during the last dozen years, those years formed 
the happiest portion of our lives. 



POETRY. 185 

As we became dispossessed of everything sufficiently valuable to 
rivet our affections to earth, we earnestly sought to be adopted into 
the Great Family of God, and to become heirs to an inheritance which 
is as abiding as God. 

That inheritance formed the great theme of our daily conversa- 
tion; and, through the mercy of Jesus Christ, we daily looked forward 
with the pleasing anticipation of soon coming into possession of it. 
The nearer we approached the realization of our fond hopes, the lighter 
seemed our earthly trial, and the more calm, peaceful and thankful 
we became, until we gave vent to our true feelings in those Sonj«.s of 
Praise, which I sent you last July, and which formed a part of an 
address which I delivered in the Presbyterian Church, in Manchester, 
at Ruth's funeral. 

***** 

Cowan now lives within about one half mile from me. He has 
often invited me to live with him, but I prefer to live alone. There is 
a charm in solitude. I go into company, but while there, 

There often comes o'er me a wave, 
Of sadness solemn as the grave; 
And then I wish for solitude, 
On which no mortal will intrude. 

The thoughts which crowd upon my brain. 
Are thick as drops of summer rain. 
To try to write them all, is vain; 
So now, from writing I'll refrain. 

R. S. HILLMAN. 

I have, in part, my thoughts express'd, 
And now I think I'll take some rest. 



186 THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

The author had a most delightful visit from Rev. John II. 
I [illman, Greenwich, X. V., this last Winter, 1905. His ] >li< >t . >- 
graph is shown in this hook, and a biographical sketch also 
given. The author wishes to add, however, that this gentle- 
man was so kind and gentle in manner and speech, it was with 
regret we saw him depart from our house. The following are 
original poems written by him, and for the receipt of which we 
art' indebted to his kindness: 

A letter to John Hillman, of Greenwich, X. Y., from John 11. Hill- 
man, to great uncle, from great nephew. 

Brookline, N. H., Feb. 28th, 1885. 
Dear Uncle John: — 

I take some time 

In writing you a bit of rhyme. 

Sending much love, and words of cheer, 

As you complete another year. 

Suppose I now should undertake, 
A little story to relate. 
With you as hero of the same, 
Would you the effort scorn, or blame? 

Eighty-five years ago today, 
Brothers and sisters ceased their play, 
To take with glad surprise, of you, 
Their baby brother, their first view. 

Some thought you handsome, others tame, 
But picked you out a well-worn name. 
Meaning grace, or favor of God, 
And taken from His holy word. 

You started well upon life's race, 
And fat, and healthy grew apace. 
Showing alike the girls and boys, 
Your interest in play and toys. 

You learned to work as well as play, 
And your loved parents to obey; 
Whose word though kind, like Moses' law, 
Was listened to with fear and awe. 

Like other boys you loved to play, 
At hide and seek, or on the hay; 
And watched with interest the kine. 
And counted o'er and o'er the swine. 

And as the years of youth flew by, 
And Winter's winds blew low and high. 
You showed that you were no one's fool, 
The time you spent in district school. 

With those dear brothers you had drill. 

At sturdy toil there on the hill-farm which you learned to till, 

I s'pose 't\Vas Matthew taught you how. 

To wield an ax, or milk a cow; 



POETRY. ],S7 

Perchance 'twas Mayhew or kind "Ben," 
Who took your side as special friend, 
'Midst irksome toils, a hand to lend. 

And as you grew to be a man, 
How much you loved your brother "Dan." 
And whether working or at play, 
Loving sisters showed their sympathy. 

Plenty of work and wholesome fare, 
And lindsey-woolsey clean to wear. 
And regular, like hens to rest, 
Going to your nightly nest. 

Learning to shun the company, 
That might lead the heart astray. 
Up you grew a young man bright. 
Knowing and striving for the right. 

Then with pluck you undertake, 
Your fortune in the world to make. 
And when you were twenty-seven, 
Feeling sometimes sad and lone. 
Soon you thought that as for you. 
You would seek a help-mate true. 

A lovely maiden, young and fair, 
Gentle and sweet as morning air, 
Responded to your kind attention, 
In ways too numerous to mention. 

You did not fish, now here, now there, 

Like modern beaux, nor few, nor rare, 

Declaring the shyness of the fish, 

They vainly strive with trash to dish. 

You popped the question to her like a man, 

She answered squarely "yes," "I will," "I can." 

Married, you did not spend a month in gadding round, 

You bought a house, and lot, and settled down. 

To earn, and save both of you know the how. 
And into practice put your knowledge now. 
You knew the blows it took to earn a dime. 
And how to wisely use your precious time. 

In diligence you toiled with might and main, 
And labored for an end and not in vain. 
And where His name was not forgot, 
God blessed you in your humble cot; 
Since every day His word you read. 
And thanked Him for your "daily bread." 
He blessed you with sweet children dear. 
And whom you taught the Lord to fear. 

And when the angel Death did come, 
And made so sad your lovely home, 
Bowing to the will Divine, 
The stars of hope once more did shine. 

As in her youth you buried your first love. 
But trusted she was better off in Heaven above, 
The little children, while they comforted. 
Must by another now be trained and led. 



188 THE HILT. .MAX FAMILY. 

Now, after waiting for a proper season. 

Heeded once again the call of reason, 

And sought with good success, the wholesome aid 

Of an intelligent and pious maid. 

She was a precious jewel, good and true, 
Of which the world indeed affords too few. 
Many were the years which you together spent, 
And strength each other in life's pathway lent. 

Sorrow, affliction, death, and pain, 

Have crossed your threshold again and yet again. 

'Midst shifting scenes of life you've striven. 

To cast your anchor in the port of Heaven. 

An aged man of five and eighty years, 
You know full well this world's a vale of tears. 
Yet still you would not murmur or complain, 
Nor ask "Wherefore have I been made in vain?" 
Long years ago to light life's path, you took 
And learned true wisdom from the Holy Book, 
And which to you was ne'er more dear and sweet, 
And stands the test of life with years replete. 

Your life now full of toil and usefulness, 

As you have striven others' hearts to bless. 

Like ancient fruit-tree bearing on till death, 

Eager shall seize upon your final breath. 

You now have reached of life the crumbling brink. 

Yet need not fear since you can never sink, 

With such a prop as your eternal King 

Whose outstretched arm doth your salvation bring. 

Now glancing back to your natal day. 
Eighty-five years flown swiftly away. 
How wondrous our Nation's history. 
Of mortal man's unnumbered throng, 
Many a million have come and gone, 
Yet you survive still brave and strong. 

Our Nation when you were a child, 
Was mostly waste, unfilled and wild, 
And as their own by Red men styled. 

Great multitudes since them have bled, 
Kingdoms have risen and empires fled, 
Multiplying of earth her dead. 

Railroads then were all unknown, 
Of telegraphs there was not one, 
And slavery had here a home. 

Our colleges were few and small, 
Few churches then had steeples tall. 
Few men "wealthy" we then could call. 

In these late times, in these new days. 
All things we ponder with amaze, 
The stirring things now taking place. 

With eagerness "What next?" we ask, 
As past and future we would grasp, 
And hold the present with earnest clasp. 



POETRY. 189 

How good to feel we serve a King, 
Who can to light the darkness bring. 
And make our hearts with joy-bells ring. 

He notes a sparrow's silent fall, 

And guides the stars and names them all, 

And sets us free from sin's dark thrall. 

Many a time He's heard you pray, 

And swept the bitter tears away, 

And cheered you "in the narrow way." 

In basket and in store He's blest, 
And as you have His name confessed, 
Foretastes you've had of Heaven's rest. 

Like pine, or oak, or hemlock old. 

You've stood the extremes of heat and cold, 

Nor cowered when the thunders rolled. 

Frank, honest, faithful and kind, 
Having an independent mind, 
Few with you a fault could find. 

Rum and tobacco you forego, 

And for St. John your ballot throw, 

And good example others show. 

Whether with others or alone, 

The dignity of toil you've shown, 

By the hard work which you have done. 

In church and State, and everywhere, 
Your record seems both clear and fair, 
And will examination bear. 

Many your name rise up to bless, 

And when you're gone will still confess, 

The beauty of true righteousness. 

Still wait on Him who for you' bled, 
And has preserved and clad and fed, 
And as your Shepherd gently led. 

Now dull of hearing and sight, 

You feel lifes day approaching night, 

At evening time may it be light. 

With Christ's peculiar favor blest, 
As sinks your life sun in the West, 
Oh, may your last days be your best. 

From sin and death and sorrow free, 
May we our Lord delighted see, 
And dwell with Him eternally. 

If not again I meet you here, 

As loving friend both true and dear, 

Let's meet where falls no scalding tear. 

Your loving nephew, 

JOHN HENRY HIL.L.MAN. 



l'.ll) THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 

BRITON AND BOER. 

(By John Henry Hillman. > 

Britons and Boers, brave peoples are ye, 
Still in red strife with each other we see, 
Professing to follow the meek Nazarene, 
What a gruesome picture ye show us I ween. 

What thinks the wide world beholding your toil. 

So studied, patient and earnest to spoil 

The loveliest things the other may own 

• •I' kopje and veldt, of mart and of homie? 

I low sordid, loathsome, destructive and vain. 
The lust of power and the greed of gain 
Neither honor nor right can be purchased or sold. 
By rivers of diamonds or mountains of gold. 

Joubert and Huller and French and Cronje. 
Kitchener. "Bobs," DeWet and Botha 
Have proved their valor again and again 
Where thousands have fallen wounded or slain. 

(ui bone'.' o what will the outcome be. 
Darkness or light? Bondage or liberty? 
Will the fair stream of Progress recede apace? 
Or like Congo grow strong and swift for our race? 

We linger with patience and hope lifted high, 
With our gaze to the Ruler above the sky, 
Who now standeth ready His goodness to show 
.And say to the wild wave: Thus far slialt tnou go. 

Greenwich, X. Y., May, 1901. 



INDEX OF NAMES OTHER THAN HILLMAN. 



A 

Abbee, Alfrida 69 

Abbott, Daniel 114 

Adams, Betsey 74 

Adams, Caroline 5 7 

Adams, Elizabeth 118 

Adams, James 113 

Adams, Phoebe 113 

Adams, Sophronia E 114 

Adams, Rev 95 

Aham, Nellie 121 

Alderson, Rev 95 

Allen, Amanda 16 

Allen, Dr 66 

Ames, Bishop 91 

Ames, 60 

Anderson, Thomas D 61 

Andrews,' W. S 8 

Andruss, Louisa C 101 

Aqus, Charles 60 

Arthur, Julia 55 

Arundale, John 7 

Arundale, Julian 7 

Austin, Mabel Estelle 75 

B 

Ballard, Oran 16 

Ballard, Laura 16 

Ballard, Mary 16 

Ballard, Phillip 16 

Ballard, Delia E 40 

Ballard, Adelia Emeline... 114 

Ballard, Adelia Rice 114 

Ballard, Nathan B 114 

Ballow, Delina 86 

Barton, Sarah 99 

Barber, Rev. Edward 8 9 

Barnes, Adonijah 16 

Barnes, Chloe 16 

Barnes, Chloe Knight 16 

Barrymore, Maurice 5 5 

Bassett, John 108 

Bassett, Major . 82 

Bates, Clifton William 53 

Bates, Elizabeth 97 

Benson, Asiba Hunt 71 

Benson, Cyrus Hillman ... 71 

Benson, Eva Myra 71 

Benson, Hattie May 71 

Benson, Herbert Willis ... 71 

Benson, Junie Emma , , , , . 71 



Benson, Mrs. Emma De 

Bora 65 

Beecher, Henry Ward 87 

Bembury, Thomas 8 

Bemis, Alex 60 

Bemis, Betsy Hillman 60 

Bemis, Charles Dunn 60 

Bemis, Jacob 60-65 

Bemis, Lydia Hazel 60 

Bemis, Moses 60 

Bell, Elizabeth Weeks 122 

Berg, 112 

Bergmann, 112 

Bergers, Maria Elizabeth.. 124 

Best, Annie 124 

Bigelow, Daniel A 16-118 

Bigelow, Elizabeth Arnold. 16 

Bigelow, Timothy 16 

Bill, Emma Louise 62 

Births, Hillman Family. 

105-106-107 

Birdsall, Nancy Ill 

Birdsall. Major General... Ill 

Birdsall, James Ill 

Birdsall, Martha Ill 

Birdsall, Zebulon Ill 

Blabon, Joseph E 75 

Blossom, Albert H 69 

Blossom, Samuel 69 

Blossom, Samuel H 69 

Boardman, Sylvanus 66 

Boardman, Walter 108 

Bosworth, Mary Ann 7 6 

Bohanan, Annie Idella .... 71 

Bouton, Madeline 65 

Bowles, Fred 69 

Boyden, Walter Willis .... 71 

Brooklyn, May 55 

Brown, Katie S 123 

Brewster, Amelia Swayze. . 89 

Brewster, Mary E 89 

Bull, Mary Augusta 61 

Burnham, Lucinda ' i 

Burton, Charles E 111-112 

Burton, Charles Edgar. ... L12 

Burton. Arthur Hillman... Ill' 

Burton. Ali e Irene 112 

Burton. George Oscar 11 

Burton, Helen Abbie 11 

Eurton, Jennie Hasel 

Burton, Lillian Ruth 112 

Burk. Anna C 1 1 '■' 



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THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 



I turke's Journal 118 

I'm ler, Prudence 59-109 

I utterfleld, Henry L19 

C 

i !a tnpbell, < lamilla 125 

« !anedy, Elea nor L6 

i !a ri'\\ . John 7 

Carew, Richard 7 

( larew . Richard, Jr 7 

Cathcai 61-81 

■ Jathcart, Love 7:;-79-82 

Cathcart, Phoebe.. 12-59-65-69 

Chase, Joseph 7.3-108 

Chase, Lydia .... 12-59-69-108 

Child, Alvira 121 

Cheesman, Drusilla 98 

Cheesman, Laticia 98 

Churchill. ,J;me 78 

Chusman, Richard, Capt. . . 10] 

Claghini. 59-65 

Claghorn, Shobal 109 

Clark, Luther 58 

Clark, Persis Lyman. ..21-57-58 

Clark, Matilda 119 

Clark. Wealthy Wilder. ... 58 

< l.ii.v. Mrs. Dwight E 25 

Clement, Judge John 102 

Coffin, Charlotte 72-11:: 

Collins. Francis 96 

Colgate, William 61 

Comjmings, Mrs. Elmer. ... 89 

i tone, Spencer H 61 

Conquest, Ida 55 

Cottell, Ethel 113 

Cottell, Henry E 113 

Cottell. Willis 113 

Cottle. Hannah 14 

Cottle. John 109 

Congdon. Rev. W. H 121 

Coursen, Jacob lis 

Coursen, Maria Hillman. . . lis 

Coursen, .Marshall 118 

Covell, Dorothy Trowbridge. 40 
I '"nun, Ella 30 

< Iowa n. Eva 30 

< lowan, Sarah 30 

Cowing, Charles 30 

Cow ing, Samuel D 30 

Cowing, Viola 30 

( Cleveland, I >eloss W ill 

( !leveland, Emma 114 

Cleveland, George Gibbons. 113 

Cleveland. Lutius Ill 

Cleveland, Rebecca D 113 

( !leveland, Sarah Jane 111 

Cleveland, Sarah M. Cady. . ill 

( !ra I'ts. Janus Taylor .",7 

< 'rafts, Lewis Clark 57 

Crafts, Marx- Persis 57 



Crafts. Thomas Spencer... 57 

< !rane, William H 56 

Craw foid Elizabeth 98 

Crippen Abigail m 

Curtis. 60 

Cutler, Timothy Rockwood. 114 

I 'hi ler, Martin l l i 

Cutler, Sophia Rockwood.. 114 

Cutter, Mary E 88 

D 

1 tar' v. Polly 16 

I >a vis. Penjamin A 7 5 

I >avis, Fred « herald 75 

1 »avis, Rufus H 108 

I ia vis. Sai ah 124 

I >ay, Alfrida 70 

1 >aj . l:. \ . j. ii (J; 

Day, James R 70-71 

Day. John Hillman 7a 

l »aj . Mai y Ellen 711 

I >ay. Mai y Emogene 7" 

Lay. Thomas 70-1 1 5 

Dagett, Mary 113 

Dayton. Chloe Ann 86 

Davenport, 123 

Davenport. Capt. Franklin. 101 

Deaths Hillman Family.... no 

Derby, Lizzie 8 

DeWolf Altai 112 

Dibble, Abigail m 

Diehl, Lizzie 125 

Dunn. Christina Lansing. . . 100 

Duncan, 115 

Durbrow, Maria Louise.... 61 

D\\-;ght. Daniel is 

Dwight, Josiah Tabitha 

Higelow 18 

E 

Eastlack, John 97 

E Iward I. King of England. 97 

Edwards. Ruth 119 

Eggert, Mary 124 

Eh anor, Princess 97 

E11 is, Isaac 98-99 

Ellis, Levi 99 

Ellis, Mariha 98 

Ellis, Mary gg 

English, Charles 85 

Evans, Mrs. R. s 96- 1 1 

F 

Ferdinand III. King of Cas- 
tile 97 

Ferguson, Robert 114 

Field, Carrie C 49 

Field, Clara E 5 1 

Field, Edwin 

... 11-12-20-45-47-50-51 



NAMES OTHER THAN II1LU1AN 



195 



Field, 
Field. 



Edgar H. . 
Elizabeth 



Field, Henry 



Field. 
Field, 
Field, 
Field. 
Field, 
Field, 
Field, 
Fitch, 



4 9 

Hillman 

... 47-50-129-165 

Hillman 

47-48-49-50-51-82 

Horace W. . . . 47-50-145 

H. Wiley 49-50 

Luilla E 51 

Myra J 4 9 

Rachel Hines Taylor. 4 9 

Samuel H 51 

Sarah Marion 51 

Clyde 56 



Flanders, John 109 



Folgei 

Ford, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 

Foster, 



, Dillie Ill 

Rebecca 99 

Benjamin 64 

Charles H 40 

Edith Frances 4 

Miss Maria A 94 

, Maud Emily 40 

Ralph Thayer 40 

Robert Hillman. . . . 40 

Mrs. Sadie H 38-40 



Lieut. 



64 
102 
51 
99 
55 
123 



122 



Samuel . . . 

Franklin. Mrs. E. N 

Frary, Ernest A 

French. Keziah 

Frohman, Daniel 

Fuller. Mary J 

G 

Gallington, John 

Garfield, James A 

Geer, Phebe Angeline 119 

Gentry, Mary A 102 

Gill, John 97 

Gillette, William 56 

Gillman, George 70 

Gifford, Clarinda T 77 

Goodrich, Arabella H 100 

Goodrich, Daniel H 100 

Goodrich. Geo. W 100 

Goodrich, Jane Hillman... 100 

Goodrich, James D 100 

Goordich. Justus 99 

Goodrich, Margretta A.... 100 

Goodrich, Martha Ann.... 100 

Gould. Alice 119 

Graves, Collins 4 2 

Graves, Mabel Gertrude. . . 49 

Gray, Mrs. J- J LOO 

Greeley. Hannah 86-91 

Greeley, Chas. S 92 

Greene, A. Ella 43 

Griffin, Thomas 

Guilford, Hattie 21 

Guthrie, Fanny 63 

H 

Haggar, Mehitable 72 

Haggar, William 71-72 



Haines, Grace 99 

Hall, Sarah M 50 

Hammett, ... 

Hammett, Benjamin Ins 

Hammett. Jonathan 109 

Hammett. (Hamett) Sarah 

65-1 L3 

I [ammiond, Lieut, [saac. ... ill 
l Cammond, Mehitable l 'rime l l l 
Hammond, Capt. Nathaniel 

64-103 

Hammond, Sarah Ill 

Hard. .M;iiy H Tn 

Harlow, Charlotte N 7 7 

Harrison. Josie \V 77 

Harrison, Maud 55 

Hart, Helen 69 

Hartwell, Sarah 37 

Haviland, Fred 117 

Haviland, Samuel Frost .. 117 

Hayes, Ethel 35 

Hays, Wm. L L20 

Henley. E. J 55 

Hesser, Joseph P 126 

Hollister, Jr. Wm 123 

Holland, E. M 55 

Howard, Wm. P 113 

Howe's Annals L15 

History Podge's India Wars. 103 

History Allen's 68 

Hines, Clara 4 9 

Htchcock. Edith 17-52 

Huggs, Capt. Samuel I'll 

Hutchinson. Mehitable Jane 71 

Hyde, Carrie 41-43 

Hyde, Hattie 41-42 

I 

Ingram. Jessie May 49 

J 

Jarend, Minna 12 1 

Jefferson. Jane 119 

Jeffreys, - 9 

Jenney, ETylvia < !ornish .... 76 

Jones. Abbie Haskel 112 

Jones, Eben L09 

.1,, nes, Henry Z 111-112 

Jones. Mrs. Sarah M. 11 ill- 
man 111-112 

Jones, Zerviah 1 09 

Jones, Sukie 86-109 

Johnson, I lenry F N '-' 

Johnson, Seth l ,; 

Johnston, l farnel I lurtis. . . Ml 

Johnston. John Ill 

.leh 1 1 st en. II; h Ann Doty 1 1 I 

K 

k. iioggr, j. w 

Kendricks, Eliza 52 



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THE HILLMAX FAMILY. 



K . • 1 1 1 1 . • 1 1 . Kobert 8 

Kenny. Nancy E 60 

Keyes, Reliance L7-52 

Keyes, Reliance Tolman... 114 

Keyes, Calvin, Jr 18 

Keyes, Calvin 114 

KLnorr, Margaret 125 

Knowles, Abraham 109 

Ij 

Lackaye, Wilton 55 

Lambert, Sarah 74 

Lathrop, Stebbins 58 

Leslie, Capt. — 103 

Lewis, Mary Tear 77 

Lewis, Margaret Tear 77 

Lewis, Nathaniel 7 7 

Lewis, Hosea 120 

Litch, Mrs. E. H. . . 11-12-13-15 

Litch, E. H 12-15-60-62 

Litch, Aaron Kimball 61 

Litch, Abigail Newton 61 

Litch, Alice Gertrude 61 

Litch, William Kimball.... 61 

Look, Daniel 108 

Look, Demarus 8 5 

Look, Eunice 86-113 

Look, Freeman Allen 113 

Look. Robert 108 

Look, Samuel, Jr 108 

Look, 89 

Looker. 89 

Loomis, Mrs. Francis 39 

Love, John N 76 

Lovell, Bertha .... 12-15-59-64 

Lone, Isabella 122 

Lowry, Mrs. Mary Jane. ... 78 

Lyons, Eugenia M 76 

Lyons, Joseph E 88 

Lyman, Ashel 58 

Lyman, Fannie W 21 

Luce, Capt. Edwin A 108 

Luce, Francis N 108 

Luce, Ira F 108 

Luce, Justin 78 

Luce, Lovey .... 10-15-108-113 

Luce, Keziah 109 

Luces, 121 

Lumbert, Sarah 108 

Lumbert, Thomas 108 

M 

Mack, Mrs 120 

Macy, Edwin B 77-108 

Macy, Maria 119 

McBoynton, Mary 69-71 

McHarg. Abigail Jennette.. 61 
Mantor, Abigail . . 73-79-82-113 

Mantor, Peter 121 

Mantor, Polly Case 121 



Mantor, Wm. Case 121 

Marable, Ann J 102 

Marriages llillman Family. 

108-109 

May lew. Clara 113 

Mayhew, Emma 113 

Mayhew, Eveline 113 

Mayhew, Harold 113 

Mayhew, Helen 113 

Mayhew. Inez 113 

Mayhew. James 113 

Mayhew, Jeremiah 108 

Maj hew, John 73-113 

Mayhew, Lydia 16 

Mayhew. Sarah 108 

Mayhew, Susannah 109 

Meacham, David K 114 

Meacham, Jennie A 114 

McClarinon, Mrs. Mary A.. 94 

Merrill, Prof 90 

Merry Malachi 109 

Mi rry, John 109 

Milner, Charles Grosvener. 60 

Milner, Effie 6 

Milner, Lena 60 

Milner, Reuben, Rev 6 

Morton, Ella F 77 

Mosely, Capt 103 

Mosse, Mary Johannah . . . . 121 

N 

Nevins, Dexter B 74 

Newcormb, Gen. Silas 101 

Nicholson, Abigail 9 7 

Nicholson, Ann 9S 

Nicholson, Hannah 97-98 

Nicholson, Samuel . . H7-9S-108 

Nicholson. 108 

Nicholham, Elmira Maria.. 119 

Nicholham, John 119 

Nickerson, Frank 113 

Nickerson, Hepsie 113 

Nickerson, Hepsie Ashley.. 114 
Nickerson, Joseph B.... 81-113 
Nickerson, Josie Baker. ... 114 

Nickerson, Nellie 113 

Nickerson, Samuel 105 

Ninis, Anna 17 

Nims, Hannah 37 

Nolan, Celio 119 

Nordica, 71 

Norton, James 66 

Norton, Jane 66-69 

Norton, Kezia 64 

Norton, Lot 108 

Norton, Mary B... 109 

Norton, Henrietta 84 

Norton, Ollie 108 

Norton, Polly 73-S0-82 

Norton, Ransom 66 

Norton, Shuball 108 



NAMES OTHER THAN HILLMAN 



L97 



Nott, A. Kingman 61 

Noyes, Harold Greeley 94 

Noyes, Theodoi'e Millard. . . 94 

Noyes, Wilbur Piske 93 

Noyes, Wilbur Fiske, Jr... 94 

O 

Oaks, 6 

O'Donnell, Rev. Moses 69 

P 

Palmer, A. M 55 

Pancoast, Elizabeth 9 8 

Parker, Capt 71-72 

Parkinson. Rev. Wm 61 

Parshall, Lucy Ann 118 

Patten, Prof 90 

Pease, Belle S 21-45 

Pease, John 93-108 

Pecker, Mrs. Daniel 94 

Pettingill, Abell Doris Davis 

75-78 

Pettingill, Mary 75 

Pettingill, Thankful 78 

Pierce, Abbie Bufforn 81-84-113 

Pierce, Andrew G 125 

Piersol, 98 

Plummer, Ann 82 

Presbrey, Nellie A 57 

Potter, Mary 86 

Power's History 125 

Pratt, Rev. Dr 120 

Preno, Orpha 40 

Presbrey, Caroline 53 

Presbrey, Daniel Sumner... 

53-54-55 

Presbrey. Eugene.... 53-54-55 

Presbrey, Fred W 5 7 

Presbrey, Hattie 5 3 

Presbrey. L. C 21-39-53 

Presbrey, Myrtie L 5 7 

Presbrey, Orson H 5 7 

Prescott, Capt 66 

Presson, Alexander Hillman 78 
Presson, David Winslow... 78 
Presson, George McClellan. 78 

Presson. Lilla Abell 78 

Presson, Mary Elizabeth... 78 

Q 

Quack, Sophia 124 

R 

Randall, John 69 

Rendt, Augusta 125 

Revere Rubber Company. . 62 
Revolutionary War Hill- 
mans 103-104 

Richards, Anna 70 

Richards, Efflee May 75 

Richards, Edmund Russell. 75 

Richards, Elmer Ellsworth. 7 5 



Richards, Eliza Thompson, 7.". 
Richards, Frank Morrison. 

Richards, Dr. John Almond 7.". 

Richards, John 7.", 

Richards, Rev. R. R 70 

Ridley, Jerusha 7 :: 

Rignault, 125 

Roberts, Mary Maria 118 

Roche, Olive 73-109-113 

Roles, Roxanna 12'3 

Ronneville, Capt. Levi 7 9 

Rowings, James 7 7 

Rush, 98 

Russell, Capt. John. . 73-79-82 

S 

Safford, Daniel 60 

Safford, Hannah Warren... 6 

Sampson, Henry lf.-si: 

Sampson, James 82 

Sampson, Susanna. 14-73-82-85 

Samson, 89 

Scales, Mrs. David C 102 

Sers, Annis F 61 

Short, Mary A 125 

Shivers, Sarah 98 

Shipbuilding Hillman Co... 122 

Sherman, Julia 30-31 

Shutes, Elizabeth 120 

Simons, Julietta F 8 9 

Simpson, Bishop 91 

Smith, Mrs. Arthur A 52 

Smith, Catherine D 3 7 

Smith, Lydia Davis 113 

Smith, Captain Nathan 

. 15-64-65-71-72-103-104 

Smith, Otus 108 

Smith, Rachel 125 

Smallwood, Mary 98 

Skiff, Benjamin, Jr 109 

Skiff, Bathsheba (Berseba i 

64-1<»:i 

Snelling, Rev. Joseph 

Soldiers King Phillips War. L03 

Spear, Augusla J 77 

Spear, Julia Augusta n :» 

Spicer, Stephen 9 

Squires, Alice 34 

Stanton, Charlotte Coffin.. 1 l :• 

Stanton, George Henry.... 89 

Stanton, George Hillman.. L19 

Stanton. Henry Clay 1 1 :• 

Stanton, Mary Jane 1 l 9 

Stanton, Samuel Gray 119 

Stanton. Samuel Mason... L19 

Stanton, Wm. Gray 119 

Stevens, Clarinda 123 

Stewart, Abigail 69-69 

Stewart, Mrs. Sarah 94 

Still man. .Ma rguerite 60 

Stoddart, J. H 55 



l'.'N 



THE HI LI. MAX FAMILY. 



Stokes, Esther 98-99 

i ■ pt. John 1" 1 

Stoyell, John 75 

Studley, Altai De Wolf. ... 112 

SI udley, < leorge Howard ... 112 

Studli j . George McClish. . L12 

Studley, I reorge W LI 1-112 

siu. II. y, Rubj Willard 112 

Sweet, Jerusha Ill 

Swift, Win. F 113 

T 

Taylor Abigail 17-19 

Taylor, Susan M 35 

Tha tcher, Anne 8 

Thatcher, Anthony 8 

Tha tcher, Clement 8 

Thatcher, Elizabeth 8 

I In i .her, Ezra 8 

Thatcher, Hi ster 8 

Thatcher, John 8 

Thatcher, Thomas 7 

Thomas, Augustus r>6 

Thomas, Rev 95 

Thompson, Jane 109 

Thorp, Thomas 109 

Thurston, Catherine 61 

Tilley, Edward 15 

Tilton, Benjamin S. . . . 106-109 

Tilton, Beriah 83 

Tilton, Charlotte. . . . 81-83-108 

Tilton, Ly.lia Butler 83 

Trinke, Mary 118 

Turner. Japhet 108 



V 

Van Arsdale, M. I >.. Hem y 6 l 

Vail, Prof 90 

Van Loon, L17 

Van Worm'er, Jane Ann... 117 

Vincent, Moses s L08 

Vining, M rs 172 

\\ 

Wade, Marietta 17 

Waldron, Trueletta S 122 

Warner, Charles Edward... 4 '.» 

WJarner, Harold Field 49 

Warren, Betsey 60 

Warrener, Permelia 76 

Washburn, Lucinda J 77 

Washburn, Sarah 16 

Washington, Gen'l 15 

Wattes. Mary 8 

Wearing, Alfred Norton... 61 

West. Ruth Hillman 118 

West, Samuel 118 

Whatcoat, Bishop 67 

Wheldon, Francis James... 85 

Wheldon, Louisa A 85 

White, Catharine R 21-57 

White, Ruth 21 

White, Lieut. Col 6 4 

Wilcott, 115 

Wilson, Jane 52 

Wilson. 115 

Witham, 60 

Woodward, Jonas 16 

Wymans, 64 

Y 

Young, 115 



INDEX OF HILLMAX NAMES. 



Atabie 15 

Abigail .... 45-80-96-97-99-108 

Aboil Petting-ill H 78 

Abel 98-99 

Abbie Amanda H 111-112 

Abigail, Mrs. H Ill 

Aimer 64-103 

Abner Plummer H 69 

Abraham 99 

Adelaide. J. H 119 

Adeline Norton H 80 

Addie 113 

Agnes 101 

Albert K. H 5 3 

Alice 7-91 

Alice Mary H 62 

Alice Cloe H 93 

Allen R. H 125 

Allen S. H 125 

Alexander, Sr 115 

Alexander. Jr 115 

Alfrida R. Hillman, Mrs. . . 70 

Alexander 

. .73-74-77-78-79-115-118 

Alexander Howes H 77 

Alan Crawford H 63 

Amanda 16-117 

Amy 75-76 

Amos 76 

Amie Jane H 86 

Anna 18-75-81-113-124 

Ann 80-96-108-120 

Annal 6 4 

Anne Ordelia H 61 

Ann Maria H 114 

Anne 85 

Anna Helen H 84 

Ann F. H 102 

Arthur Constantine H 117 

Arthur C. H 117 

Arthur S. H 91-93 

Arthur 81-113-124 

Arnal 105 

Anlc-.i 110 

Arad 17-52-53 

Asabel 105 

Asahel 59 

B 

Barron 114 

Bathsheda 108 

Belle 30 



I villi II <\ II L02 

I enjamin, Dr 118-123 

l « njamin F. H 86 

Bi njamin R. H 101 

Benjamin. Lewis H 77 

I i njamin .... 1 4-59-73-75- 
77-79-80-82-85-103- 
L05-106-107-113-119-12] 

Eeriah 64-105-113 

Beriah T. H 14-15-80- 

81-82-83-84-105-113-121 

Betsy 85 

Betsy Chase H 60-105 

Blanche M. H 76 

C 

Calvin Keyes H 52 

Capt. H LIS 

Caroline Wentworth H Ill 

Caroline 86-113 

Caroline W. H 81-83-105 

Carolina Wilhelmina H. . . . L20 

Carl Daniel H lis 

Carrie C. H 76 

Catherine 114-117-120 

Catherine J. H 63 

Catherine Ann H Ill 

Celina 80-108 

Celinda Jane H 111-112 

C. E. Hillman I'M 

C. E. Hillman, Mrs 12 1 

Charles 10-64-122 

Charles T. H 2 1-57 

Charles G. H 30 

Charles Lyman H 58 

Charles S. H 

Charles Guion H 62 

Charles Benjamin H 77 

Charles E. H 1":' 

Charles L. H 94 

Charles Matthew H 86 

Charles W. H '• 

Charles Ellis ll 10(1 

Charles Levitt- H 100 

Charles Dexter H I ! :> 

Charles F. II 116-117 

Charles La Fletcher II 117 

Charlotte 

. ..80-84-105-107-1 I" 
Charlotte .Ian, ll .81 
Charlotte Tilton H 

< lharlotte Milner ll 

Chloe ^nn i 'ayton ll 



200 



THE HILLMAN FAMILY. 



Chester 16 

Clarissa 80-105-108 

• Mara 41 

< !larence 40 

Clifford 34 

« •laiiiula 69 

Coal of Arms Hillman.... 118 

Col. Hillman 115-116 

College Hillman 80 

i !oi nelia Hillman 115 

< •..melius Hillman 64 

i lornelius Seguine H 61 

( 'ordelia 74 

Covell 40 

Cyrus Stebbins H 69-71 

D 

Daniel . . 59-64-85-88-96-97 

98-99- L00-101-102-103-105 

1 ►aniel, Jr 102 

Daniel, Sr L02 

David . . • .59-64 T 75-103-105-115 

I »a\ is Henry H 118 

I leborah Kmma II 7 1 

I (eborah 108 

Demaris Looker H 85 

Demis 53 

1 »inab 110 

Doris S. Pettengill 11 78 

I >orothy 63 

Drusilla 18 

E 

ivlwin Forest H 60 

Edwin Emmet H 11" 

Edwin 108 

Kdwanl 64-99-108-115 

Edward James H 61 

Edith Coy H 40 

E. G. Hillman 119 

Eliza 53-80-108 

Eliza Jane H . . . 86 

Elijah 72-113 

Elisha 75 

Elizabeth . .21-52-64-73-79- 

97-98-106-108-113-114-117 

Elizabeth Ann H 78 

Elizabeth Tilton H 118 

Ellner 8 

Eleanora L. H 53 

Eleazor 15-16-17 

Eliphalet 105 

Emily 37-114 

Emily F. H 40 

Emeline 77 

Ephraim 98-99 

Erastus 123 

Erastus B. H 123 

Ernst Wilhelm H 118 

Ester 75 



Esther 53-119 

Eunice 108 

Eustace 89 

Eva Amelia H 89 

Eve 115 

Ezra . . . 59-65-105-106-107-109 



Fanny 81-105 

Fannie Eeal H 84 

Fannie Milner H 12-60 

Fannie 60-113 

Pear 108 

Flora A. H 52 

Fordyce L. H 40 

Francis 64-113-114 

Francis Butler Tilton H. . . 

81-83-105 

Francis H. H 40 

Francis T. H 40 

Frank 53-76 

Frank Herbert H 62 

Frank W. H 21-57 

Franklin H. H 91-93 

Franklin K. H . . . . 77 

Franklin William H 124 

Fred 124 

Fred D. H 123 

H 34 

H 19-21-39-45 

H 76 

H 124 

121-124-125 
121 



Fred 

Fred 

Fred 

Fred 

Frederick 

Frederick 



E. 
O. 
H. 
W. 



John H. 



G 



George 37-53-71-72- 

7 5-8 9-99-100-103-116-117 

George B. H 87 

George C. H 40 

George Dana H 71 

George H. H 120 

I leorgr Nelson II 86 

George Roswel H 35 

George W. H... 86-89-102-122 

George Washington H 

61-62-63-100 

George Washington H. Jr.. 62 

George Whitfield H 117 

■' Jeorgia una 77 

Gersham 65-104-105 

Gilbert 7 4 

Gilbert R. H. Capt 74 

Gilbert Russell H 75-78 

Gladys 35 

Grace 102 

Grace C. H 102 

Grace Haines H 99-100 

Guion Guthrie H 63 

Gusta M. H 21-57 



HILLMAN NAMES. 



201 



H 

Harry 5 3-124 

Harry H. H 76 

Harry L. H 91-93 

Harry W. H 30-35-92 

Harriet 74 

Harriet Jane H 85 

Harriet N. H 108 

Harriet Louisa H 58 

Harriet Pease H 52 

Hattie L. H 53 

Hannah .. 10-73-79-98-100-108 

Helen Augusta H 58 

Henry .. 8-75-76-79-85-108-118 

Henry S. H Ill 

Henry Van Ardsale H 6 2 

Henry W. H 123 

Herbert 53 

Herbert C. H 4 

Hervey 52 

Hiram 86 

Hollis 52 

Honor 8 

Horace 81-84-113 

Horace E. H 122 

Horace Owen H 84 

Howard Leslie H 57 

I 

Ichabod 73-77-79-105 

Ida 76 

Ira 8 9 

Ira Martin H 86 

Irene Taylor H 35 

Isaac 89-111-123 

Isaac Noah H Ill 

Isaac. Merritt H S6 

Isabella 7 4 

Isaiah .. 74-78-105-108-118-121 

J 

James... 9-74-79-97-98-100 

102-105-110-156-161-181 

James W. H 

. . .22-25-30-32-34-45-115 

James Bull H 62 

James C. H 101 

James Col. H 116 

James H. H 102 

James Harvey H 86 

Jain N. H 108 

Jane. .59-64-65-66-69-80-99 

100-102-105-106-107-UiN 

Jane Ann H 177 

Jean 109 

Jemima 18-114 

Jerome... 19-21-39-41-42-43-45 

Jesse Van Loon H 117 

Jerusha Ill 

Jethro 64-76 



Jirah ' l 1 "'. 

Jireh 60-65-75-106 

.!. C-ii. H 117 

John 7-10- 

12-14-15-17-52-59 I 
74-79-80-82-85-89-94- 
96-97-98-1 L2-114-118-123 

.J. .mi H. H L02 

John Hem y. Rev. H 

... .86-89-94-187-190-191 

Johnnie 53 

John. Dr. H 112 

John Augustus II 120 

John. Capt. H 12 1 

John Eeattie H L22 

John C. H 125 

John Henry H 123 

John. Rev. L. H 120 

John Peter H 122 

John Reuben H Ill 

John Russell H 53 

John S. H 69 

John Snyder H 61 

John Wj. H 77-117 

John Wesley H 116 

John V. H 115 

J. J. Hillman 114 

J. W. Hillman 115 

Joab 97-98 

Joachim T. H 12 1 

Josef 123 

Joseph ....10-64-89-97-98- 

100-111-115-119-123-121 

Joseph E. H 119 

Joseph M. H 119 

Josh 9 

Josiah 97-98-103 

Josias 10-103 

Jonathan L2-15-59-65- 

74-in 1-1K6-109-111-1 13 

Judith 59 

Julia .. 21-53-115-156-161-181 

Julia Presbrey H 127 

Justin. 17-19-20-41-45-47-53-57 

K 

Kate 12 1 

King Phillips War 1" 

La Fayeette 86-113- 1 I I 

Lavenia 64 

Lena Mae H 89 

L< muel F. H 94 

Lemuel Sewell H 

Leon 34 

Leonora 12.". 

Leroy 94 

Levi L6-21 

Lewis 122 



2i (2 



T1IK illl. I. MAX FAMILY. 



Lewis .1. H 41 

Lilli. Folgi . II 112 

l. in.- 11 

Lillian 125 

Lincoln II. II 94 

Lizzie 1 25 

Lois L08 

L^is s. II 92-93 

Lola E. Hough H., Mrs. . . 94 

Louis : 119 

L..t ... 10-11-12-13-15-16- 

17-18-39-52-104-108-113 

Lottie 

Love 73-79- I'm; 

Lucy M. H 

Lucy Alice II 

Lucinda 

Lucretia 

Lydia 69-105-106-107 

Lydia Milner H 

Lyman 

Lysander 10-37-4 

M 

Mabel A. H 

Mabel L. II 

Mabel Adelia H 

Ma rjorie 

Mary 53-64-73-75 

77-105-106-107-109 

Ma ry Ann H 

Mary A. H 

Mary A. McClarinon, Mrs. 

H 

Ala i y Augusta H 

Mary Ellen 11 9 

Mary E. H 

Mary Elizabeth H 

Mary Keyes H 

Mary .lane n 86 

Mary X. II -. 

Mary C. 11 

Ma ry I 'I u miner II 70 

Maria P. H 

Maria 110 

Mariba Fray H 

M Mrs. II 

Mai Ilia 59- 

61-73-98-100-108-109 
Ma rga ret 7 

M'argueril e A melia H 

Marguerii e Eve 11 

Mariam 7 

Ma rian Louisa II 

Matty 

Maybew 8 

Matthew 64-79-85-8 

Mehitable 71 

Mi rcie Hanks H 

Medos 



S i 

-109 

1 12 

la 

16 

8 

-108 

60 

52 

0-45 



40 

4(i 

114 

63 

-1 1 I 
86 
89 

9 4 

62 

L-93 

1 L5 

7 5 

52 

-119 

ins 

126 
-115 

12(i 

-lis 

l: 1 :; 

IL'I 

-121 
5-97 

61 

115 

3-79 

86 

106 

5-89 

6-89 

-109 

16 

1 15 



Mindeth L02 

M iiiei vn 7-"> 

Molly 59-65 

Monmouth Rebellion 9 

Moses 1 1-13-59-60-65-69- 

L05-106-107-108-115-1 1'.' 

Morgan W. II 86 

Myra 74-7.". 

\ 

Nancy 108-119 

Nancy Keyes H 52 

X. Hi • 45 

o 

i Uiver L25 

i Ulie, Mrs. H 108 

i irdelia, Mrs. H ill 

Owen . 73-70-80^81-82-107-108 

« Iwen, Jr 

82-83-105-106-107-108-1 1" 

( (wen, Capt H 110 

i >zn ' 21-57 



Pardon 106 

Parable 66-106-108 

Peggie 16 

Peleg 62-71-104-113 

Peleg Lewis H.. Capt 71 

Pheba L05-106-107-110 

I'bila 52 

Polly 80-85-1 10 

I'i esbrey 17-52 

Prince 74-lofi-l08 

Prudence 18-60-106-1 09 



It 

Rachel Ann 

Ralph Hayes II 

Ransom l : . II 

I ti becca -. . 73-74-75- 

106-107-109-1 lo-l 14 

R( II, ef ('. H 

Revere Rubber Company.. 

Reuben . l 7-3 

Rhoda 

Richard B. II 

Richard P. H. . . 1 1-105-106 

Richard S. H 

Richard 62-64-77 

Robert 14-73- 

74-75-79-105-106-107 
Robert, Jr 

Robert. Capt. H 

Rocksey E. H 

Roland Lewis II 

Roger 

I Loswell James H 



62 


3 5 


86 


lii:,- 


-121 


101 


62 


7-40 


109 


1 19 


-107 


1 2 5 


-109 


-109 


ins 


110 


76 


8 


35 



HILLMAN NAMES. 



203 



Roswell, Dr. S. H. 17-19-21- 

25-30-39-47-127-129- 

130-145-146-150-155- 

156-159-160-161-163- 

164-165-176-177-181-186 
Ruth 14-15- 

16-109-118-119-176-177 
Ruth A. H us 

S 

Sadie F. H 40 

Sally lg 

Samuel .12-14-59-65-66-69- 
71-97-98-99-100- 
102-105-106-107-110-120 

Samuel Chase H 60 

Samuel Jeduthan H 123 

Samuel Insco H 69 

Samuel Stokes H 99 

Samuel Thomas H sti-ss 

Samson 85-86-89 

Sampson 79-85-89 

Sarah ... 16-97-99-109-114-118 

Sarah A. H 40 

Sarah Crawford H. . . . 100-123 

Sarah Lewis H 7 7 

Sarah, Mrs. M. H 111-112 

Sarah Wilder H 57 

Serepta 5 2 

Seth 74 



Silas. . 79-85-86-89-109-110-113 
Silas Augustus H. . . . 85-88-89 

Silas Dayton H 86-87 

Silas. Jr 1 iri 

Shadrach 59-106-109 

Shubael 15-16 

Shubael Franklin H 16 

Snead 37 

Spencer Cone H 62 

Snpnronia 74-75 

S. R. Hillman 120 

Stanley Irving H 35 

Stephen 16-64-75-109-110 

Stephen P. H 119 

Susan 80-86 

Susanna. . 73-79-85-106-109-110 
Susannah 16-21-109 

T 

Theo. Bernard Lewis H. . . . 121 
Thankful 64- L06 



Thomas . . 15-64-73-75-1 L3-1 1 :< 

Thomas H. 1 1 i ,,;.>- i n | 

Thomas Mayhem II 60 

Thomas Baker II 

Thomas Uidh\ ii 77 

Thurston | ,,.; 

T. T. Hillman .' ' |m 

Timothy 62-71-104 

Tristam 59 ,,,,; 

I 

Ur 'el 74-77-78-106 

W 

Walter .... 41-73-79-80-81-113 

Walter. ( .'apt H 80-121 

Walter, Rev so-8 1 

Walter Pierce H s 1 

Warren 1 | : ; 

Warren T. H 81-83-106 

Wass 1 g 

Wealthy | , ; 

Wheldon SN 

Whitten 76-77-79-109-113 

Whitton 

W. H. Hillman 117 

William 7-61-62-71- 

75-76-87-106-1 I t-120-124 

William C. H 7:5-7 f, 

William Heiny 11 86 

William Oren H 86 

William Frederick H L20 

William,, Jr 62 

William Edwards II 1 1; 

William Washington II.... 117 

William Whitaker II 60 

William S. H 123 

Willie *. . . . in 

Willie I). H 94 

Willie P. H in 

Willis S. II 94 

t. 

Zachariah . 

76-79-81-83-106-1 L3- 1 25 

Zi bulon :,:i- 1 06 

Zerniah 105-106-107 

Zerviah L09- 1 I" 






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